Breakfast with a kindergartner

by Denny Roberts

Cullen was eating his typical breakfast before heading off to kindergarten: a huge bowl of Cheerios covered with a thick layer of honey. It would have been even thicker if we hadn’t monitored the number of many circles he traced above this bowl with the inverted Honey Bear bottle. Like most mornings I was there listening to the morning news program, reading the paper and finishing off my cereal before heading to the office. The news broadcast then turned to a short segment on a state legislative initiative to limit abortions. Cullen heard the new word, “abortion.” So he rested his spoon in the bowl and asked me what “abortion” means. I tried to be honest, without being specific about methods. I didn’t get close to partial birth abortion. But even my summary explanation was a shock to him. I watched his expression change from puzzlement, to anger and, finally, to urgency. Without finishing his cereal he ran to get his coat and grabbed his back pack. I asked him where he was going. He said he had to get to school, early. He had to tell others about “this thing, abortion.” “We have to stop this thing,” he said. I watched this little guy run out the back door and across the yard. He had to do something to help stop this horror, abortion.

Denny Roberts is a member of the Heartland Chapter of Presbyterians Pro-Life and an elder at Colonial Presbyterian Church. This story is reprinted by permission from the Heartland PPL Life Link.

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