Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

The Cross of Christmas

 The Advent and Christmas seasons can be particularly painful for those are post abortive. Everything around resounds of children .As the Christian world waits in joyful anticipation for the birth of the Christ child; it can become a painful reminder of the children we did not allow to be born. Just looking at the baby Jesus in the manger scene can cause great anxiety. Just the sight of the Christ child often brings darkness, shame, guilt and a paralyzing fear.

 The secular world can be a strong abortion connector as well. As we are bombarded with the year’s hottest toys, we can’t help but reflect on our children who have been deprived of opening toys on Christmas morning, or the empty place at the Christmas table missing the son or daughter we chose to abort

 As the world is celebrating and basking in the idea of “Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men”, many who are post abortive feel nothing but spiritual and emotional isolation void of peace, tormented by their past actions.

 Do you hear what I hear?

 In the midst of all this however, is the true joy and message of Christmas…that God sent His only Son – the Word made Flesh, to dwell among us and free us from our sins. Through the birth of the Christ child in the poverty of the manager, the means of our salvation is present and our reconciliation with God, our children and yes, our selves are obtainable. And even though our children are not physically present to us, they share in the joy of the birth of Christ, who came to free us from our sins, even our sin of abortion. They desire our salvation so that we can join them in everlasting life with Christ.