May 10, 2026

“A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.”

Rachel weeps for the people of Israel taken into captivity. God was punishing Israel for it’s sin in allowing Babylon to take them captive. People continue to be captive not to a foreign nation but to sin. Its damage continues to ravage children and bring sorrow to mothers.

Historically, the abuses of sexuality have taken the greatest tole on women and children. Men too suffer, but we will hold off on that briefly. The consequences of unrestrained sexuality is perhaps best and most poignantly captured by a poem called conversation with an Archeologist by Hollie McNish. The poem describes an archeologist explaining that they had found a brothel on the dig that day. The person hearing the news asked how a brothel was identified, the archeologist explained that near the ruins of the building there would be a “pit of babies bones, a pit of newborn babies bones was how to spot a brothel.” Even writing this it’s hard not to cry for the mothers used only for sexual gratification. It’s hard to think of them weeping as their children are snatched away. It’s hard to think of the cruelty of the species that would so violate nature as to desecrate the bond between mother and child. 

The desecration has not stopped. It’s estimated that 591000 babies were killed in just the first six months of 2025, it’s further estimated that 73 million babies are killed worldwide. I know that some reading this may be quick to protest that a fetus or embryo is not a baby. To those people I would ask; what is it then? Is it not alive? Is it some other species than the one dictated by it’s DNA? These are obvious questions, no honest person can conclude anything except that we are killing humans to maintain the delusion of consequence free sex. 

Sadly these millions of souls who’s blood cries out for justice are not the only victims. A quick google search reveals that more than 27 million people are subjected to forced labour each year around the globe and that about 23% of those are in the sex trade. Eight hundred thousand mostly women and girls are transported across international borders for the sex trade each year.

It’s Mother’s Day but not all mothers are happy. We pray for good mothers who are loved and appreciated by a good society. 

Kevin Cleary