I remember when I first heard your heartbeat, it had only been eight weeks. Standing there staring at that screen was the first time you ever scared me. - Brett Young
Planned or unplanned, every pregnancy is scary. Hundreds of questions and fears. Ultrasound is the window into the womb. And every time the ultrasound detects a heartbeat, with fear there is hope. Hope because that heartbeat, tiny and strong, belongs to a new life - and where there is life, there is hope. New life is scary. Terrifying, even. But it is beautiful. Recently, a woman told me she had been forced by her boyfriend to have an abortion. He wouldn’t go with her to the clinic, and later that night he threatened her life, and left her. Fear, fear again, and more fear. We live in a broken world. A world where babies with tiny and strong heartbeats are killed. A world where a man takes advantage of a women, takes a life and leaves a life. We are right to grieve. But there is hope. Hope that came in the form of a baby. I am sure Mary was terrified when she found out she was pregnant. But that tiny heartbeat inside her body was God made man - Jesus, who’s heart would later be pierced for our transgressions. “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.” - Isaiah 53:4-6
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