We celebrated a birthday, this
weekend. We went to our favorite
hamburger joint as part of the festivity.
The person recognized preferred it to something fancy. Since there were few in number Teresa baked
some brownies (instead of cake) chocolate of course since ALL birthday cakes are
chocolate in this family (sorry Josh, we WILL still fix you a carrot cake – but
-) with homemade German Chocolate frosting.
Good finish to the day.
Carla picked up some soup bones
at the store, they were marked down and she doesn’t find them very often. They were for Blaze.
I carved off the small bones and
fat and took him outside to devour.
After he brought it into our bedroom, I took him and his bone back
outside. After he brought it into the
living room and tried to eat it on the couch I took him and his bone
outside. He tried one more time and I
told him no as he approached the door, he went back to the yard and started
enjoying his feast.
He is an intelligent dog, it is
his fear and he can’t grasp some of the concepts of being a dog that keeps him
from doing the things most dogs do.
Ruth
4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife:
and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave
her conception, and she bare a son.
As stated above we celebrated a
birthday this weekend. That is the date
all of us use as the beginning of our life on earth. But it would be much more accurate to say
that our life begins at our conception in the womb of our mother. That is how God perceives them.
It is too bad we don’t celebrate
that day, but, it is much more difficult to tell when it was and it involves
activity that some find embarrassing, so we celebrate the birth. That is too bad, because it tends to minimize
human life and for those that promote abortions doing it prior to the birth day makes it more palatable
somehow.
Abortion has become big
business, not only for those that harvest the baby, but those who use the parts
of the baby for research, etc.
Reading the above verse got me
thinking this morning, ‘what are the leading causes of death in America,
today?’ I have heard it is heart
disease, cancer and the third is medical error.
So I got to looking up info on the web.
Now, we all know that it can be a bit off, but what I found was basically
the same info from different sources.
It is interesting to note two
things, most don’t even address medical deaths nor do they address deaths by
abortion. I found that to be the norm in
sites operated by medical professionals.
All statistics are for America.
Causes of death in 2013
(according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): Heart disease 611,105; Cancer 584,881
According to a 2000 Medical study: (Journal
of the American Medical Association) published a
study by Dr. Barbara Starfield, a medical doctor with a
Master’s degree in Public Health. The doctor, from what I understand, concluded
there were at least 225,000 deaths a year from iatrogenic causes (medical
providers, doctors, nurses, hospitals, etc.)
Again, none of the medically
sponsored sources I reviewed had Abortion as a cause of death – I know there are
some sites out there that do include it (at least peripherally,) but I couldn’t
find them today.
Statistics from Pro-Life sites,
show that Abortions are going down in the United States, undoubtedly from
education of what a baby looks like in the womb and the use of contraceptives to
prevent conception verses abortion to prevent birth.
According to Abort73.com there
were an estimated 984,000 abortions in the United States in 2013. (Consistent with other sites, but another
site listed it at over 1,120,000; which the Abort73.com site listed for
2012.)
Now, I realize that these
statistics are not of the same year nor are they from the same source, so it is
difficult to give a completely accurate picture of these four deaths, but it
will give a good perspective on the deaths:
Heart disease 611,105
Cancer 584,881
Medical mistakes 225,000
Total of the supposedly top
three causes of death: 1,420,9876
Using the centers numbers and
the additional from Dr. Starfield, there are 2,135,311 deaths in the United
States due to medical reasons. Now from
the Center we have another category, homicide.
There are 16,208 homicides in the US for 2011. (As an aside, according to the FBI’s Uniform
Crime Report just 15 cities accounted for 3,304 of those murders or 20%.)
But 984,000 Abortions far out
number any one of the top three and multiple times more than any other kind of
death.
So, we have approximately
3,135,519 deaths a year with almost one third (31.4%) of them being unborn
children. But, those aren’t counted,
because society doesn’t want to recognize the murder of these babies.
Let’s put that into another
perspective. We know war kills our young
men and women. They die and we lose some
of the brightest and most honored Americans.
Had they lived it is hard telling how much higher status this nation
could have attained.
There have been 1,309,000 deaths
of men and women serving in the military in all the wars and conflicts our
nation has been involved in from 1776 through now (including both sides of the
Civil War – 623,026) according to Military factory.com.
In other words, in less than 18
months there are more children murdered than all the young people who have lost
their lives in all the wars and conflicts we have fought.
The numbers are down, but it
isn’t hard to see where the number 55 million deaths due to abortions has come
from.
Even with abortions going down
it is still, by far, the leading cause of death in the United States. Deaths of children. Deaths of the innocent that have done
nothing, except be conceived.
And our society and our government, as a
whole condones, it!
Millions upon millions of souls
crying out because they were murdered without recourse.
We recognize that abortion is
sin. It is the taking of a human life
without cause. But, like everything else
that satan uses against God, satan uses his power of seduction and lies to cover
it up and make it more appealing as a way to assuage the feelings of guilt.
Fortunately, God is in the
business of forgiving sin through the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus
Christ. Even for those that do the
abortions it is not too late to stop them and repent of their sins and crimes
against humanity.
Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved.
10 For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
Many Christians are suffering,
still, from abortions they had in the past.
Many who have had abortions feel the guilt so deep they do not think God
will ever forgive them.
That of course is not the case
for either person. God loves each of
us. All of us have sinned against
Him. Yet, He stands ready through the
blood of Christ, to forgive us and accept us into His family.
We need to remember those that
have or are contemplating the death of their child by Abortion in our prayers
and loving guidance through God’s Holy Spirit.
We need to pray for those who view the child as just a group of cells
that have no life in them and can be discarded from the body like fecal matter,
flushed away and never again thought about.
Later, Art :-)
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