Thank You Mum, You made the right choice

When the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary, he said, “Hail, favoured one! The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28b NASB).
This morning I called my precious mother for our usual morning chats when I am driving to work. One question I asked her was how she managed to go through pregnancy as a 24 year old single woman, and no husband to support her. I was the child she was carrying in her womb. I thanked her for not contemplating an abortion. Growing up in a conservative Christian church, she might have been excommunicated, ridiculed and shamed.
When pregnancy is such an intense stressor that the woman is contemplating abortion, she is making her decision under great stress. This means that she is likely to make a risky, premature, ill-thought-out decision based on what seems like the quickest way out of the immediate crisis.
There could be a young woman out there thinking of going the abortion route. We don’t know what she is going through and her state of affairs. However, there is a story in the bible of a young woman Mary who became the mother of our Lord and Saviour Jesus.
Part of the price Mary paid was the doubt, suspicion, and rejection she encountered because of her virgin conception. Neither Mary nor her fellow believers were expecting a virgin birth.
Despite all this, Mary persevered. Although she experienced times of sorrow and despair, she always trusted in the Lord. She never decided to give in. When something bad happened, she continued on because she knew it was all a part of God's plan.
There are situations in life that makes us want to abort our dreams, visions. The discouragement, condemnation creeps in and the future looks bleak. Don’t give up on that dream and vision. Don’t give up on that baby; you don’t know what God made him/her to become. God is able to forgive us for the sin committed, but remember the child is not a mistake.
Thank you mum, you made the right choice. Look what the Lord has done. I am still here by the grace of God.