They are starting to spray the orchards, and I see someone is burning debris (outside the city limits there is not specified dates) a sure sign that spring is springing.

Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

And Vs 18-24  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

¹⁹ Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

²⁰ For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

²¹ Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

²² I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

²⁴ And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

You received an e-mail from me yesterday referring you to a web page which included a film (later I find it is just the trailer – but the documentary is out there, just will take some searching) on the Paper Clip project undertaken by 8^th graders in the late 1990’s through the early 2001’s.

A good friend of mine gave the following response – my response follows.  His point is very well taken.  It involves what is happening in America, today and since 1973.

Some of you may know someone who has decided to abort their child – one of the things that we must understand is that when the remorse sets in and they understand the enormity of their sin, that they CAN be forgiven. 

It is not easy, and many feel so guilty they have a difficult if not impossible time realizing that Jesus died that all sinners, including them, could be forgiven.

Our nation, on the other hand, instead of taking that sin as such, continues to perpetuate it and causes the country more pain.

My friend’s e-mail, in part (which also involved the above quotation:)

“When placed along side the fifty-seven million and counting murdered innocent babies ... murdered by our neighbors, our coworkers, by the same people who sit in the church pew next to us. Unfortunately God won't forgive us. The blood of the innocent and the fatherless souls cry out to Him for justice. It (the Holocaust) all becomes somewhat meaningless in comparison. I would be much more impressed if the school had attempted to make a movie visualizing fifty-seven million little baby corpses. Paperclips would be too clean. I have always held the Nazis's and the German citizenry in vile contempt, disdain, and revulsion for what was allowed to happen in Germany. If I don't feel the same ten fold for America ... I would be an hypocrite. We are so many times more guilty of murder than the Nazis's ever thought of being. I'm sickened by Christian excuses. I'm sickened writing this.”

I understand exactly what you are saying.  In the past decades, and accelerated in the past 6 years, America has spiraled down the cesspool of human depravity and called it lawful actions.  Those actively opposed to this wickedness are being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law – and it is getting worse, daily.

Personally, I believe God is removing His protective hand away from our nation and we will see far more suffering because of it.

Yes, the holocaust pales in the light of such corruptive immorality, and wasn’t even the greatest accumulation of murders by a nation against its citizens in its time, Russia holds that distinction.

But, these young people, when they were told about the holocaust, couldn’t understand the numbers – it is mind blowing, especially for this age.  Even in the late 90’s when this project started, the term, “billions (of dollars”) was being thrown around like they were $10 bills.

In course of this project over a period of several years, each year the current 8th grade class of this small, rural, deep south community began to understand man’s inhumanity to man.  They began to understand that tolerance ( which has been taken way out of context these past few years to mean we not only allow it to happen, but we have to endorse it and not cast dispersions on our ‘differences’ no matter how depraved they are ) can be accomplished without damaging but adding to ones’ own values.

Without that compassion we cannot reach others for Christ.  This project, as they put it together, made them realize that each paper clip was a person, and they started to ‘feel’ the soul of that person, their pain, their suffering.

The enormity of numbers so overwhelm us we cannot begin to deal with them. 

These young people found a way to help them see those numbers.  Through their interaction with Holocaust victims and their families, they understood these were not just numbers, but real, live, people.  They began to ‘feel’ the soul of the person in the paper clip, it was no longer a paper clip, but a person.

It is an interesting and moving story and endeavor by these young people.  I applaud them for their tenacity and tribute to the victims.  AND their teachers and principal who worked tirelessly to help them.

I do wish there was a way to be able to make people see the killed babies a real, live, person.  Not just a number - to see the enormity of this nation’s sin, for not only condoning but encouraging the killings.  I don’t have the imagination to undertake such a project – perhaps someone else does.

I did go on-line to see if I can help myself picture the millions of death in the killings.  There may be better ways, but I thought of the population of America and looked up a census reports, 2013 was the latest I could locate.

The numbers and my thoughts follow:

According to the 2013 Census:

Population of the United States: 308,745,538.

Population of all of The Northeast region of the United States total 55,943,073 people; Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey PLUS West Virginia 1,854,304 and Delaware 925,749 and The District of Columbia at 646,449 and you have a total of Fifty nine million, three hundred sixty nine thousand, five hundred seventy five (59,369,575) souls – in AMERICA.  

These are individuals, men, women and children; Fathers, mothers, sons and daughters; uncles, aunts and grandparents.

People who are working, going to school, playing, doctors, nurses, firemen, policemen, construction workers, authors, artists, musicians and the list goes on, people living their lives the best they can.

All of the population of the Northeast part of our United States is zero – gone as if they never existed. 

But even those lost souls are under the count of children legally executed (that we are aware of) in the United States, since 1973.  So we have to add in West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia to approximate the total devastation that would be required to represent the total children legally killed since 1973; in AMERICA.

Another way to look at it would be that everybody, right now, over the age of 55 plus half of those between 50 and 55 would be gone – the age range that, coincidentally,  had the greatest impact on making the decision to legalize the killing of children. 

Fifty nine million, three hundred sixty nine thousand, five hundred seventy five (59,369,575) souls; almost 20% of the population of the United States, a whole region of the United states, imagine them gone, as if they never existed.  But they do, as do the souls of those children murdered in the womb; in AMERICA.

These are individuals, children; boys and girls.

People who will never have the opportunity to work, go to school, play; who will never have the opportunity to be doctors, nurses, firemen, policemen, construction workers, authors, artists, musicians and the list goes on, people living their lives the best they can.

Their life was violently taken from them.

How do we quantify those people, they aren’t just a number – the Nazi’s were good at giving people numbers weren’t they? 

These are individual people, how can we possibly visualize those babies, killed without a chance?

What would they say to us if they could talk to us, right now?  But, not only to their mother and father, but to the rest of us, as a nation?

We decry the murder of a child as he walks along the street and is the victim of gang violence – or any other for that matter.  It is right we do that, but far too many have lost sight of that real live child in the womb, it is a separate human being from its mother, and it is legal to kill him/her.

One of the 2016 Super Bowl commercials by Dorito, depicted a baby in the mother’s womb on a sonogram.  The pro-killing baby movement is up in arms because Dorito humanized the ‘fetus.’  ????

We are told that the numbers of abortions are down – if we believe that – but if so, it is probably due to many causes, among them would be the mother seeing her child on a sonogram and realizing it isn’t just a growth to get rid of, it isn’t like a wart or an unsightly mole, it is a human being.

WE need to help those who have made that decision to seek forgiveness from Christ.

WE need to help those who have not yet, but are thinking of, making that decision.

We all must make a decision on how we deal with this issue.  As in most issues that we as individual confront, it is those we have a relationship with, one on one, where we can make the most difference.

One of the many things I have advocated through the years is to live for Christ and rather than getting into people’s faces over sins, to help them understand that Christ loves them – we can most often accomplish that be showing them concern and being aware of who they are.  It may take a while before they are willing to listen to the Gospel, but when it is done, they are receptive because we share from God’s love, not our own anger.

Obviously, there are many ways that we need to address this issue, and there are many people doing just that, but it just isn’t getting the fact, that these are human beings, across.

Satan has a strangle hold on our nation, in not only these murders but in many immoral acts being perpetrated as acceptable behavior; it is getting stronger every day.

I agree with you, we, as Americans, are worse than the Nazi’s.

May our people realize that only God can change the course we are on now, and only if our nation asks forgiveness for our sins.

He punished His people when they, as a nation, departed from Him – we do not have the same standing they had, we are in far greater peril.

Later, Art :-)