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We Are Horton. Horton is we.

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We are Horton. Horton is we. 

Imagine my surprise, when on the inaugural SaveOne Love Life Missions trip this year, I heard for the first time about the book, Horton Hears a Who. This book rocked my world. I am forever grateful for Serenity Pregnancy Center director, Rachel Williams, insisting on giving me the book when she heard I had never read it. So it is to her and the incredible staff in Cody and Powell, Wyoming that I dedicate this blog post. 

Originally written in 1954, by Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss. He was 50 years old when he wrote about Horton…22 years before the abortion debate would reach it’s most crucial and horrifying act yet…legalization. 

His words are somewhat prophetic as he explains how Horton the elephant hears a small voice coming from a speck of dust. He realizes there IS a person living on this speck, so he takes tremendous care of the speck, taking it to a safe place. 

Many times I have seen the famous quote attributed to DrSeuss that Horton says in this book, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

He tells people of the life living on a small speck of dust and he is deemed crazy. It doesn’t take long before other animals come out of the shadows to ridicule, belittle, and shun him. “I think you’re a fool!” said one, while another said, “You’re the biggest blame fool in the Jungle of Nool!” 

Horton becomes frantic because the ridiculing bullies want to do away with the speck, so they start splashing away in the water near the speck. They didn’t care if the life found was lost, to them the life didn’t matter. It was easier to say the life wasn’t there than to help the elephant protect what he had discovered. 

Horton goes about protecting, hiding, carrying, and maneuvering the speck around to different safe areas. Because to him, a person’s a person no matter how small.

When Horton stopped long enough to listen to the small voice, he was thanked for saving their families, their churches, their buildings, and houses. The elephant gasped, what he thought was only one life, was actually made up of many others! Not only did he save the voice he heard, but his family, his community, and his livelihood. 

Just about the time Horton was realizing there was an entire town on this speck, another group of naysayers came along to destroy the life he was helping. They snatched it away, and the story looks like all is lost. The speck is given to a bird who carries the speck far way, but Horton wasn’t hearing of it. He chased the bird day and night, got beaten, bloodied, and bruised for his efforts. 

The mean bird dropped the speck in a sea of other specks so Horton would never find the life he was trying so desperately to save. But this chaste elephant searched and searched and would not give up, because to him the effort was worth it. He knew, a person’s a person, no matter how small.

When he finally found the speck with the life, he found out the damage that had been done and vowed to protect them once again. Through all of Horton’s efforts, the naysayers, the bullies, and the people who wouldn’t believe him, all came at him as a hateful tribe. They threatened to take the speck and boil it in oil. 

Horton turned to the town on the speck and asked them to raise their voices as loudly as they could. They tried and they tried but no one could hear them. They screamed, “WE ARE HERE! WE ARE HERE!” Still, no one but Horton could hear the hullabaloo. At this point Horton is beaten and mauled, but he had seen the life and couldn’t let it go. He took the beat down because he knew, a person’s a person, no matter how small. 

As the speck town screamed, beat drums, and tried their hardest, they realized some Who’s weren’t united in their life-saving efforts. Horton asks, “Are you sure every Whodown in Who-ville is working? Quick! Look through your town! Is there anyone shirking?” Sure enough there was one who was shirking.

When looking around at my fellow Americans and church leaders, I read these words by the Who-ville mayor and they brought tears to my eyes. “This,” cried the Mayor, “is your town’s darkest hour! The time for all Whos who have blood that is red to come to the aid of their country!” he said. “We’ve GOT to make noises in greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

That one voice was the one who put them over the top and everyone around finally heard them. Because of their united efforts, they changed the minds of the naysayers, bullies, and critics. Because they joined in together with one voice, for one cause, they saved their entire town and future generations and helped everyone see…a person’s a person no matter how small. 

If you made it to the end of this “book report” about Horton, I want to call you to action. The first step is to click on saveone.org/store and order the book, Is There Not a Cause? This book will educate you regarding the giant we face and how he can be defeated. Then contact us by emailing info@saveone.org and let us know what you think and what steps you are ready to take.

Every. Voice. Counts. 

Sheila


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