this morning as i was eating my breakfast and reading the newspaper as i do every morning, i read one of the most horrific and terrible things i have read in a very, very long time.
(this is not for the faint of heart, or for the pansies. you are responsible for the truth that you know.)
on the front page of the oregonian today, there was an article about this woman in hillsboro. she seriously wanted to be pregnant, so she decided that she was. she told her boyfriend and her family that she had a baby inside her, when she really did not. i cannot pretend to understand what happened in her head between then and what she did next. she met this pregnant woman on craigslist, met her in hillsboro, and murdered her. the article did not say how the mother was killed, but it did say that the woman cut the baby from her mother's womb.
oh Lord. the things that happen in this evil world.
she sliced the woman's abdomen open and the baby died.
you think that is bad?!?!? you just wait and see.
this woman is being charged with ONE account of murder. but how many lives were taken here? let's count them: mother, and baby. that makes TWO. TWO lives that were crafted by God and personally knit together, now gone. the government is now trying to determine if the baby was alive in the womb - the whole when does life begin argument. but that baby was growing and getting bigger and developing inside its mother...i would say that it was alive! who can deny it? and that child is being ignored! this was a double homicide!
THIS IS A MASSIVE INJUSTICE!!!
oh, and speaking of injustices, i'm doing my term paper in my research class on the lord's resistance army (LRA) in northern Uganda, which includes child soldiers, and covers the invisible children movement.
so today i watched the invisible children movie again, just floored at the fact that this was completely unheard of for so long. jan egeland from the bbc was quoted saying, "it's a moral outrage to see thousands of children that have been abducted, that are maltreated, that are going through the most horrendous torture by the rebel movement, and also, the same groups now being neglected to some extent by the whole international community. i cannot find any other part of the world having an emergency on the scale of uganda with so little international attention."
i felt like i was burdened today having read, seen, and sobbed about these events. i feel deep conviction about it, and i wish there were a way to prevent these things from happening. it's hard for me to understand why God lets us keep on living. look at all the harm we cause. look at the depth of our depravity. today i nearly begged Jesus to come back soon. and i hope He does.
