You heard about traffic accidents, where a car is out of control and kills an innocent person. We say to ourselves, how awful that was - these people didn't do anything wrong, and the whole thing just doesn't make sense. Next time you hear about these tragic events, think of the poor innocent babies in their mothers' womb being aborted. What did they do to cause this to happen to them? They did nothing wrong. When asked to send money to save a polar bear or save a whale that is in danger because of the environment, again think of poor innocent babies in their mother's womb being aborted and taken from their environment. Still, they did nothing wrong. We look to Mars for "life" and fail to see the "life" in a mother's womb. Christ came to us as a new born baby. I believe that life begins at conception, and with the birth of our Lord, when the Holy Spirit came upon our blessed mother. Some say Christ was nothing after days, weeks or even months in His mother's womb. In the Bible, when it tells us about the birth of Christ, it does not say anything about first, second or even third trimesters. These people would have you believe that Christ was Christ when they say he was. We must love and pray for those men and women that find themselves contemplating abortion, or had an abortion. No one is without sin, and all of us can err. We should be careful to not condemn anyone. I will pray for a rebirth of faith, first for myself, and then for others. Let us stop and

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think, and then thank God, for coming into the world as a baby. RALPH SIERRA MOUNT WOLF