The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

Suppose that you are 52 years old,

16 years ago, you adopted a daughter, she was nine, and both of her parents had died and you had no idea you couldn't know all the

circumstances surrounding her birth and life up until nine years old.

And you believed with all your heart you were doing the right thing.

God's glorious father-like grace

was going to shine through your father-like adoptive love.

At age 25 now, she's single, has a child and has aborted four children. She's pregnant again and supposed that in her despair and in her sin she commits one last abortion by committing suicide.

And there you are.

Grandparents in... there you are, grandparents in the rubble of your dreams.

Now facing another adoption, your grandchild.

And again, you believe, you believe with all your heart down into your bones. It's just the right thing.

And you embrace this child with all the unknown effects of the trauma and your life has changed forever.

That's a true situation in every detail.

And a handful of you in this room know who it is, and I ask their permission.

One of the reasons I start with that story is because The ripple effect of abortion is not just a woman or a boyfriend or a husband or a grandparent, it cuts right through every part of life to extended families.

It's not just a moment, it's a lifetime.

Another reason I start with that story is because I want to make plain that what I'm about to say is designed not simply to prevent hundreds of abortions in this church and beyond,

but also I want to bring hope and stability and kind of serious tear-stained

joy in the life of those of you who have chosen to do the right thing at tremendous

cost.

In every area of your life, not just that area.

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