Last night was the first night I had off from pet sitting in almost a week.  I put clean, comfy sheets on the bed as I listened to the Jazz program on NPR.  If you don’t listen to NPR, I suggest you do something about that—and soon.  NPR is one of the best things going in the world of media.  I recently traded cable for it.  Any way, I finished making the bed and then hopped in the shower.  When I got out, I slid into my warm bed and realized that God makes the small seem big when he filters it through the lens of a blessing.  What I mean is that making the bed can seem like a chore, but instead the whole evening was a huge blessing.  I didn’t know how much I missed listening to the radio and getting ready for bed.  I had forgotten how fast the dogs fall asleep when Alan and I are around (yes, Alan was around—he was off too, and enjoying his own blessing, video game time).  I was reminded of how precious the “small” things are, and how kind God is.
 
On another note, while I was traveling about last week, I saw this bumper sticker: God is Pro-Life.  Hum, I wondered.  Yes—I agree that God is pro-life.  After all, he did start the whole life thing.  But what was so curious about this bumper sticker was its proximity to other stickers that are not typically associated with the value of life: Support our Troops and “W”.  In all fairness, a person with such a variety of stickers may indeed be pro-life, but I assume that’s not entirely the case.  I know the old joke about “assume”—that it makes an ass out of you and me.  So what.  I’m assuming…
I figure that the proclamation that God is pro-life is in reference to the ongoing abortion debate.  But it screams of a bigger problem.  If God is pro-life, is he always pro-life or just when it comes to babies?  See, if God only cares about the fate of babies, then I think that’s cruel.  It’s like saying, “Hey, kiddo, I care that you are born.  But after that, oh well.”  It’s been my experience that many people who are pro-life are also supportive of actions and policies that are not so life valuing—war, cuts in social aide, cuts in education.  I mean, it seems unfair to do all that one can to ensure that a baby is actually brought into this world, but then really have no interest in it’s welfare once it actually arrives.  I know that this isn’t always the case, but this is how it appears to me.  And I assume I’m not alone in that perception.
Yes, God is pro-life.  I just don’t think it’s in the exact way that the bumper sticker bearer intended.

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