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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Pregnancy Scare


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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