The Helplessness of Fathers

   Sadly, I say, there is another whose pain is not visible, but nevertheless is real. I am the father, that forgotten third party. It takes a father to create a child.    

Although a father bears as much responsibility as the mother for that unborn child, he cannot stop her if she decides to pursue abortion. I wish I could have.

   Bearing a child is the greatest gift of love a wife can bestow upon her husband. She honors him with God's creation.

   Roe v Wade took this honor and disposed of it in a bloody refuse container.

   It has been a long haul since. I always thought love cured all, especially in marriage. I found out it isn't my love, but God's love that forgives.

   I am filled with sorrow that it took my unborn child's death to bring me back to the Lord, but I am happy that there was a purpose in his life though it was lost.

   This week he would have been one year old.