Many times, we see mothers around us looking for an abortion because they think they are not ready to have a child and take care of him. Maybe their youth, their economic difficulties, their familiar and social pressure forces them to think of finishing the life of their babies.
But let's talk about "being ready". What does "being ready to be a mother" mean? Perhaps it is all about age, perhaps about the support these girls are given, perhaps their personal resources and strenght to face obstacles. But there is a fact we cannot deny: they ARE mothers already. They have been taking care of the developing baby for some weeks, and it seems, they have done their job quite well: the baby is still struggling for life.
No mother at all was ready to become it, but life itself teaches us, and God is always holding us tight; what these mothers want to avoid is not the child, but the problems that having an unexpected baby implies. So when you decide to solve these problems without fear, knowing that life works that way and leaving everything in God's hands... worries suddenly dissapear.
It is not a matter of being ready to be a mother. They are mothers already. It is matter of being ready to being generous and (as we say in Spain) "hold the bull by the horns". That is the ultimate decision the mother has to make, if she is strong enough to be totally happy.
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