Lucy

Recently I was listening to the radio and one of the songs that came on was Lucy, by the band, Skillet.  I love that band and this song is in my top five by them.  When I first heard the song, I thought it was about a husband whose wife died, or a boyfriend whose girlfriend died.  But I later learned that it was actually a song written about a story that actually happened to two (actually three) people.  A young couple in high school makes some bad choices and the girl ends up getting pregnant.  Neither one is ready to raise a child, so the couple decides to abort the baby, thinking everything will go back to normal.  But things just got worse for them.  A short while later they realized that they just killed a helpless baby; a part of them.  They were full of grief and sought help from a counselor and they took several steps to do what they could to let their child know how sorry they were.  One of the things they did was give the baby a name and set up a gravesite in her honor.  They chose the name Lucy and the song starts out with the dad placing roses at the gravesite on what would have been her birthday and just to talk to her.  This song is just very powerful to me because I am extremely pro-life and it makes me sad when people think that abortions will get rid of "mistakes."  I cannot believe abortion is not a crime because it is genocide!  We are killing the people of tomorrow!  I know that there are some exceptions, but many are not.  When I hear this song I think of what I have done, what I am doing, and what I can potentially do to put an end to this absurdity.