Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

The Advent and Christmas seasons can be particularly painful for those who suffer from a past abortion.  It seems as though everything around us resounds of babies and children.  As the Christian world waits in joyful anticipation for the birth of the Christ child; a post abortive personal can suffer with painful reminders of the children we did not allow to be born. Just looking at the baby Jesus in the manger scene can cause great anxiety. What to most people is a beautiful sight, the image of the Christ child, sadly, can often stir up feelings of darkness, shame, guilt, and even paralyzing fear.

Even the noise from the secular world during the “holiday” season can become just as strong of an abortion connector.  As we are bombarded with the year’s hottest toys for kids, 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 where our missing son or daughter we chose to abort would have been.

In the midst of what seems the whole world celebrating and basking in the idea of “Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men,” many of us who are post abortive can be left feeling nothing but spiritual and emotional isolation, completely void of any peace, brutally tormented by our past actions.

Do you hear what I hear?

In the middle of all of this, however, remains 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, ourselves, is attainable. 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.  Our children desire our salvation so that we will join them in everlasting life with Christ.

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Are you or someone you know suffering from the wounds of abortion?
There is hope, there is healing.  Visit the Lumina Website for more information.