06/01/2023
Are you struggling with postabortion guilt? Read this ...
Perching on the edge of her seat – I will never forget Ethel’s face in my doctor’s office.
She told me her abortion was decades back but a post abortion complication ruled her life.
“What’s that Ethel?” I enquired.
She had grown to trust me and stretched out a thin, wrinkled hand and laid it on mine. “I think of that baby every day of my life. A Harley Street doctor said he would do it.”
Ethel’s face was a relief map of wrinkle upon line upon valley upon worry. Searching my eyes she asked, “Can I ever be forgiven?”
In March 1767, the ex-slave trader and pastor John Newton wrote to a friend: “poor and needy as you are… If our Physician is almighty, our disease cannot be desperate and if He casts none out that come to him, why should you fear? Our sins are many, but his mercies are more.” (The Works of John Newton, New York, Robert Carter, 1847)
“Of course you can be forgiven,” I answered Ethel. The Bible says, “The Son of God (Jesus) loved you and gave himself for you.” (Galatians 2:20)
Suddenly, 30 years rolled off her face, the wrinkles had fled and I saw a beaming joyful radiant younger woman. You can be like that too. Phone a pastor and have a chat.
Or are you pregnant now? Searching your heart whether termination or keep the baby? Find your way with https://www.choicescommunity.co.uk/unplanned-pregnancy
