Destinies Lost – A Life Without My Son? by Sandy Arena on 02/03/16
I once asked my then 10-year-old son Caleb the question, “How do you know I love you?” And he answered me without blinking an eye, “Because you didn’t abort me.” As I gazed lovingly and adoringly at my son after hearing him say this and trying to visualize a world without him, you can imagine how my heart hurt. As a woman who has aborted, his words cut deeply as truth in my broken heart as the reality of what he so innocently said unfolded.
I just received a novel yesterday written by my friend Renee Maimone which she worked on for many years. I have not read it yet, as I just received it, but she wrote the following to me in a letter included with the book:
“When a life is taken before one’s time, things change. God will never reduce your significance by creating another you, therefore your blueprint will no longer interact with another. The loss is now suffered by those remaining. This includes ordained spouses.”
And likewise, there is a song I wrote for Arise Sweet Sarah where our character “Sarah” sings of the loss of her unborn and the devastating choice she made to abort. The song is called “Destinies Lost”, and it is about taking what was God’s and what could have been through the choice of abortion.
There is so much wrong with abortion and cutting the life of a human being short because of fear, uncertainty, selfishness and career goals. Abortion robs the world of so much including the dignity of the woman who partakes, and also robs the world of a preordained destiny with a plan and a purpose. No, I can’t imagine a world without Caleb. And worse as a mother, because of abortion, I am left to imagine a world that includes those I aborted and what could have been. I am also left to process and silently deal with the deep sorrow that comes with such imaginings. Complete Article