A baby is moving in the womb –
dancing, turning, kicking, hiccupping…
a precious life has been made,
but is yet to come into the world.

What will she find when she lands?
What will he find when his eyes meet his mother’s?
What will she find when her eyes meet a stranger?
What will she feel when newness is cold?

God is Life. God is Love. God is Strong.
We are given life by God, our Creator.
We are made by God, to love –
by loving God, we learn to love others.
God is unchanging, invincible, and wise.
He cannot lie.
We change, are weak, and foolish.
We die. But there is more!

The baby arrives and is perfect.
The baby breathes, cries, and reaches for the mother –
they are one.
How could we murder a baby not yet born, still in the womb?
With hypocrisy, we condemn the killer of a baby, just-born.
SIN ENTERS THE SPIRIT OF PARTAKERS IN THIS CRIME AGAINST GOD, AGAINST LIFE.
Sin inevitably has consequences.
The baby in the womb is alive – with an identity, a personality,
a right to life, a promise to life from God, Author and Creator of life.

The mother and baby are inter-dependent – they need each other.
God designed the Family – a strong togetherness of love, stability, unity, faith, hope, and growth.
The Devil wants to destroy it; for he is Death.
God creates, for He is Life.
The baby knows its mother’s voice.
Eyes search and penetrate the mother’s heart.
Their hearts break open with indescribable, joyous love.
Tiny hands touch the mother’s skin – a baby, 
mesmerised by the outside world, has broken free - of
its sanctuary of protection, comfort and warmth.

Don’t let the world become cold – let the baby know love and hope, trust and adventure, joy and peace. And true freedom in Jesus.
Don’t let the world, with its falsity and violence, vanity and greed,
selfishness and negativity, contaminate Innocence, imprisoning hope.

There is but one way – JESUS.
He IS the Way, the Truth and the Life: the only Saviour.
The baby seeks its maker – Jesus, of God.
The baby seeks its future – Jesus, the Way Maker.
The baby longs for perfect love – Jesus, in God.
Be custodians of the gift of life and find a heart of pure gold – 
the priceless gift of God.

Poetry10july24©juliehughes.com