This picture is everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Do a Google search for this picture and you will find pages of results. I stopped counting the websites using this picture after 50.
It is a fascinating picture. I can see why people are gravitated to using it to showcase their thoughts, their products, or ideas. Here’s just a few of the sites using this picture: a skin care for pregnant women, a site talking about Pregorexia, (I hadn’t realized there is a name for an eating disorder while pregnant), a site talking about H1N1 while pregnant, another site that asks, “Can pregnant women undergo Laser Eye Treatment?” and a site with an article titled “8 Very Strange Facts About Pregnancy.”
Does this picture speak to you?
To me, this picture so eloquently speaks truth and love. If we could see into a pregnant woman’s womb, this is exactly what we would see at a certain point in pregnancy: a baby, a little human being. And even though earlier in pregnancy the baby looks smaller, and at some points is almost too tiny to see, it’s still a baby. Sharing life and blood and nourishment with its mother, being accepted, protected, and loved. This picture speaks of a bond of love that the heart will never let go.
But not all babies are allowed to have their place in this world. Some are not protected, nourished and loved. Someone tarnished the truth and told an expectant mother that her baby wasn’t worthy of love and protection. And so she fell for it. She succumbed to freedom of choice where love is banished and truth is buried.
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth,”—there will come a day when everyone will know the truth; that all babies, no matter their size, are worthy of love and protection. And then love will reign and rejoice!
Shining The Light 