What good are Allies if they are not willing to fight??

Am I doing as much as I should or can be doing? Do you ever ask yourself that? A friend of mine posted something on FB, she said that she was feeling the weight of the world on her.. I thought that was an interesting thing to post and wondered what she was going though.. I found out later that she was feeling anxiety about how our "great" country believes that it is okay to take a child's life. What is so great about that? We got into a discussion about this a work about a month ago and one of the Leads had to tell us to stop talking about it.. When is it okay to abort a baby? I once thought that it was okay to abort a baby if the woman was raped but my views have changed. I do not think a baby should ever be aborted, "bastard" children are lives too... There as so many people willing to adopt children these days (or that's what I've been told) there will always be someone to care for and love a child. Anyway, she said that she fasted and prayed about it. What else should we be doing? I do not like our president, he scares me. His policies feel too much like socialism and making everyone equal. The people on the bottom of the social structure want to be at the top and they don't want to have to work to get there... That is what we get from the immediate gratification crowd... I think is should be illegal to abort a child, period. Once you start making acceptions you start playing god.

Anyway, getting back to the discussion about abortions and parents loving their children... Another friend of mine works for a company that cares for children with handicaps, mental and physical, she was telling me about some of her kids who are having their parent's parental rights terminated.. She was talking about how the kids want more then anything to be with their parents even though they were in a really bad sitution. The kids just want to be loved by their parents but heir parents were not even caring for their simplest needs.. The feeling of abandoning my kids (I don't have any kids) absolutely tears my heart apart.. I can not even begin to imagine how parents can just take their kid for granted... Most parents care for their children more then they are for themselves, how does one lose that drive? Selfishness, that's how... I once heard about a family that had a down syndrome child, I think they were very selfish. This couple was a very affluent family and they had many nice things but everything changed when their first child came along... They had all of these dreams for this kid and they were both extremely excited about having a child and then when they realized that they would not be able to do all the things that they had dreamed about, they dropped that kid like a bad habit... They put him up for adoption and walked away.. I am sure the kid was adopted by a family who was willing to love him and accept him for the kid that God made him to be.. At least they did not abort the child but they did care for the child more then them selves..

So I ask myself, am I don't all that I can to fight for what I believe? The answer is no. I could be doing more, I could always be doing more... But my friend also said that she does not want to look back on her life and ask herself what she could have done differently. What will I tell God on judgement day? He asks me what I lived for knowing full well all of the times that I stumbled and all the times that I looked the other way when I could have stood up for what I believed... I need to pray about this. We as humands get into patterns and we tend to do what it easiest. It usually is not easy to stand up for what you believe because sometimes you turn allies into enemies... But what good are allies if they are not willing to fight??

This is something I am going to have to pray and meditate on..