In Honor of the Recent Supreme Court Decision

AMERICA'S CALL
© Steve Shultz 2008

Save the whales and the owls,
Save the seals in the sea
Save the buffalo roaming
And please save the tree

Who could object?
Every person likes life
From the left or the right
We want birds to take flight

Yet a strange thing's askew
Our value is questioned
If God isn't real
We choose what feels best then...

Save every creature that moves
The ones high and low
But the ones we will lose
To the children, say "no"

Since God may not exist
We can dispense with the kids
We say with our fist
We close our eyelids

The cross is long gone
There's only a tomb
It's empty of course
But so are some wombs

We're told "it's convenient" to end a small life
But only a baby's
-- For animals we fight

Convenience is truth
Though animals are saved
Little children are no proof
That God chose our way

Yet God is a God -- who loves man and beast
But to some, God seems a God
who loves children the least

It's the other way 'round
You see children must reign
Over all the earth
To protect fish and game.

But the child might get in the way, some say
There's too many children they think,
To protect animals all day

So some make that choice, because choice is their god
They choose animals and things
Instead of a blob

We call that blob, "tissue"
It makes easier to do --
To a fetus destroy
There's simply no issue

And we forget that our choices killed Deborahs and Davids,
Future judges and kings
We don't need them to save us

It's just cells, only stems and things
It's just embryonic
They don't even have wings

If the truth were told, what was growing inside
Will cause pain when you end it
Did cause pain when they died

The good news is this, though we're made out of mud
There's forgiveness from Heaven,
We can be washed in His blood

Much in America is left to be cleansed
But we're moving toward cleansing

Before it all ends

While we can't judge the sinner
Because of our mirror
We can offer forgiveness
Because He is here

He's Savior and Lord
The Lord of our planet
He loves animals too
But no baby is banished

He loves those who sin
He loves those who blew it
He is the God of Choice
So His choice will "renew us"

He asks us to consider
Only what is best
For the planet He made
So we would find rest

Consider...

-- that what's in a woman
Is not "what" at all
Though He loves animals too
A Baby's a person
A person who's small