The Works of God

President Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.  It is one of the most visible and prestigious awards in the world.

From the announcement of the award:

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.

Nominations for the award must be received by February 1. President Obama would have been in office less than 10 days before being nominated.

On his second full day in office, he rescinded the Mexico City Policy, which prevented the U.S. government from funding clinics or groups that offered abortion-related services overseas, even if funding for those activities came from non-government sources.  Apparently expanding abortion services are the values the Nobel Prize Committee believes the majority of the world shares.

The President has been in office 262 days.

At 2005 rates, 861,369 babies have been aborted in the United States since he became president.

How many of those babies were aborted simply because they had a disability?

I do not share the Nobel Prize Committee’s source of hope for a better future.  But I do have a hope:

He established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 78:5-8