It’s rare for me to turn the devo over to another writer, but in this case the words below are written more eloquently than I could every hope to present them.

They are the words of Teresa of Calcutta, the so-called “mother” Teresa. She wrote these words on the subject of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion…

 

 

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts—a child—as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters.

It remains the blackest, most shameful sin this nation has legally termed “acceptable.”

As Isaiah says…

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

In my country we’re not just calling the evil things “good” we’re legalizing them, encouraging them, and condemning those who dare oppose them.

Shame.