Grace on Display

Woman's Twins Save Her Life

I hope to catch up on a few things I've been thinking about as I've laid in bed all week.  However, I wanted to start with a story I came across this morning.  A few weeks ago I mentioned the mother who sacrificed her life in order to save her baby's life.  Well, here is a story in which a woman's twin babies saved her life by kicking a tumor free from her cervix.  Enjoy the read, and there will be more to come over the next several days.

Life and Sacrifice

I just came across this story and it was too good to pass up.  You can read the full story here.  It is the story of a mother, Lorraine Allard, and the sacrifice she was willing to make for her baby boy, Liam.  She discovered 4 months into her pregnancy that she had liver cancer.  Her options were to delay treatment, almost certainly ending her life, but saving the baby, or end her baby's life and go ahead to try and save her own life.  She chose the former, forgoing treatment, in order to save Liam's life.  After Liam was born, she began receiving chemotherapy treatments, but in the end they could not save her life.  She had given it up willingly.  In her words, "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."  Two months after Liam was born, Lorraine died, leaving behind her husband, a 10 year old, an 8 year old, a 20 month old, and her newborn.

What a sacrifice.  What a display of heroism.  What an example of sacrificial love.  She willingly laid down her life so that her child could live.  This is a moving story, and one that I will not soon forget.

May she motivate us to think about our own families, to pray for the family she left behind, to pray for mothers seeking abortions right now, and most importantly to think about the sacrifice of our Lord when He laid His life down for sinners like you and me.