Yesterday was National Life Chain Sunday, a silent protest agaisnt the atrocity of abortion. To our shame, 4,000 abortions occur in our country daily. So once a year I, along with other members of my church and a few others, stand on the sidewalk lining Hwy 99 with signs that say "Abortion Kills Children." How odd that one has to put that which is so obvious in print before passerbys. But, there is a blindness that has overtaken our nation so that the obvious is no longer obvious. What once was recognized as clear truth is now cloudy and obsecure taken hostage by situational ethics and sin. What once was a common understanding of right and wrong is no longer shared by the mass. The killing of children is taken on the same weight of any same day surgery. Nevermind the body parts that are disposed of--where?

The motorists pass by; some ignoring us with eyes fixed on the road straight ahead. Some express their hostility openly, and some give us the horn with thumbs up. Some go by and stare at us like we are animals in the zoo. They must wonder what kind of people are these that would waste such a beautiful Sunday afternoon when they could be up at the lake or taking a Sunday afteroon nap.

I wonder how much good it does holding the signs for all the passing world to see on a solitary October Sunday afteroon. That I will probably never know on this side of heaven. But I pray that those who drove by see common, ordinary people unafraid to hold up the truth that
"Abortion Kills Children."