A few nights ago a girl I mentored a few
summers ago, who is now a senior in high school, sent me a text out of the
blue. She was afraid that she was pregnant.
She is physically sick from
anxiety.
She hasn't slept in days.
She
feels alone.
She is a terrified girl who may be forced
to move from childhood to adulthood at too young an age. She potentially faces
a future of having to bear more responsibility than she should have to by herself.
Sex, pregnancies, and bearing children are
things that God intended to be good, and yet, we have twisted all of them. The possibility of pregnancy shouldn't cause fear.
In that moment I couldn't help but think of
what a messed up world we live in. We have taken three of God’s beautiful gifts
and so violently skewed them to the point that they now cause us unnecessary distress, hardship,
and pain.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
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