Tiny Blessings

My mom always told me that blessings come in all shapes and sizes. I believe this to be true but the girls who walk into our centers scared, confused, and ready to run hardly find an unplanned pregnancy a blessing. It isn’t until they’ve had the baby and get to experience motherhood with their baby in their arms that they don’t even know why they ever considered an abortion.

When a girl we’ve walked through pregnancy with comes back to visit with her baby it brings so much joy to our hearts and it proves that our long hours and sleepless nights were worth it in the end. There’s so much joy and satisfaction in looking down into your arms and being able to see the endless possibilities that are within this tiny little baby.

For a moment it’s like the whole world stops and you can say to the baby, “I fought for you.” Fighting for these little ones is truly an act of love. We loved these babies first when the rest of the world said, “Just get rid of it, you can always have another one.”

This total disregard for human life makes me sick to my stomach but at the end of the day, despite how heartbreaking it is to think that maybe one of your girls had the abortion, we know that our babies, the ones nobody loved, the ones that didn’t survive, are in heaven looking down at us smiling because even if we could only save one baby we’ve made a difference and that’s a good feeling.