Unwanted Life Testimony

Here's a cool testimony I wanted to pass on to you from Dorothy Armstrong. I think it is safe to say that many of us have thought of ourselves as 'unwanted' or 'an accident'. I hope her story encourages you:

If abortion was freely available in 1942, I would not be writing you. When I was in high school my mother told me that some children were tulips and some were geraniums. For tulips you planted bulbs and planned on having them. Geraniums started from a slip. She said that she had three tulips and a geranium. Then added that I was her geranium. She told me about the difficulties she and Dad were having in their marriage at the time they discovered another baby was on the way. Hearing that you were unwanted was very hard for an insecure teenager. Complete healing came about 30 years later in a seminary class with Mr. Ewald. I was writing about my mother telling me I was a geranium, then I realized that people like geraniums. My mother had also told me that when I was first born they named me Doris. However, when I was three days old, they changed my name to Dorothy. I later found out that Dorothy means "gift of God.' I was not wanted, but I was a gift of God. Wanted or not all children should be called Dorothy because they are a "gift of God." We may plant the seed planning on a child or may plant the seed from "a slip,", but God determines if there is life.