Babies: Those Who Want Can't Get And Those Who Get don't Want

Pastor Lee Jong-rak takes a baby from his drop-box

Once I visited a Belgian couple in the neighborhood of Antwerp. They are married for many years and both are in their forties but they have no children. They dearly love each other and many times, I study the way Peter treats his wife, kindly, gently and respectfully.

“Joel, hold a woman like an egg because when it breaks, you can’t pick it up, you will only miss your water when your well runs dry,” Peter once told me.

I do ask questions, especially when very close to someone. “Peter, you don’t like children,” I said. “I married to have children, but we never had one. I’ve tried everything without success, “said Peter. “After everything failed, did you ask from God?” I asked.

“If there is God, then he might be a very wicked God indeed,” said Peter.

I realized the pain and heartache of Peter. His comments are enough to know how dear baby means to him, but frankly speaking, when one seeks God, God will also seek you. His wife couldn’t bring forth a baby and now he hates God for that?

It’s not only Peter and his wife facing this bitter experience. Worldwide, there are thousands of women looking for children without success. Some have spent thousands of dollars just to be pregnant all to no avail. Many are sad in their matrimonial homes because the child they are longing for never comes.

Without any hope of having owned their babies, some adopt children, yet thousands of babies are killed daily through abortion, strangulation, and abandonment.

Some mothers are so cruel that one finds it difficult to believe what they did to their own babies, The question is, why babies often end up in the hands of women who don’t want them when someone else is looking for one without success?

A couple of months ago, a woman from New Jersey was arrested and charged with murder for allegedly putting her newborn baby in the middle of the road and setting the infant on fire.

Since many are giving up their babies than those looking for babies some countries are finding solutions for the problem. Germany has already found a solution to discourage abandoning of babies, by providing baby bank.

Lee Jong-rak, a pastor in South Korea, saw a devastating problem in the number of abandoned babies left to die on the streets.

He organized a “Baby Drop Box” where unwanted babies are deposited in a box, saving thousands of babies who would have been left on the streets or abandoned to die.