Bella

So last week I was having lunch in our storehouse. We feed about 100+ there are week. I was talking at one of the tables and a guy comes up and says, "Did you say abortion? I hate abortion!" I was actually talking about something very different. So I said, 'no I didn't.' He walked on.

It was strange and sometimes it occurs to me that this might be a God moment. A possibility if you think life might not be random. So, after lunch i walked up to the guy and i said, 'hey why do you hate abortion?'

He says to me, 'It's not right, I don't think mom's should be able to kill babies. You know they are babies!' Not a popular position especially amongst some of our street workers I am quite sure.

It occured to me that he like myself might have a problem with abortion because we have a deep, unconscious understanding that we were made to live and give life, to protect and nurture it. I was reminded of Bella perhaps the most redemptive movie I have ever seen. It helped me see my need to be a dad. You see it is about what happens when there aren't dads in the picture. The desperate aloneness that women have to face.

I said to the guy, 'I think God might have given you the gift to be a great dad and that is why you hate abortion.'

I wish there were more dads. Perhaps if there were more great dads there wouldn't be a need for abortions.

Stunned he simply said, 'thanks.'