Posted on 01/25/2020 4:21:42 AM PST by Kaslin
If I'm going to be completely honest, I cried a little as I listened to Donald Trump speak at the 47th March for Life, a massive annual pro-life rally in Washington, D.C. The tears were caused by a combination of things, including lack of sleep, I'm sure. There are a lot of beautiful events before and after the march, and reunions with wonderful friends from throughout the country. But my reaction also had to do with the contrast of some of the president's words with the bile that we often hear in politics of late, including at his own rallies.
My first instinct, in fact, when I read the news that President Trump was going to speak at the March for Life rally, was to write a thank-you note to former President George W. Bush for not attending. He would always call in, thus using the office of the presidency to promote an important cause without getting in the way of it.
The thing about the March for Life that is most important is how much of it is about joy and hope. Yes, it is a protest march, protesting the evil of abortion, but is also a gathering of people who not only want something better for women and children, but work to do something about it. The March for Life includes people who have made life possible.
I'm always moved by the people who come to the march in wheelchairs and with walkers, who have Down syndrome and other obvious challenges. I met two of them, toddlers, Maria and Andrew from New York, at a Mass. I'm always overwhelmed by the youth who pack churches and arenas, and this year even the Washington Convention Center.
But it's not just the young who give me hope. Far from it. This year, I spent some time with the Sisters of Life, a group of nuns that not only promotes alternatives to abortion, it helps heal the trauma of women who've had abortions.
I firmly believe that a lot of the anger and hate in our politics today stems from all these years of legal abortion. And as we inch (or race, as it sometimes seems), toward the 50-year mark of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in this country, I feel the need our nation has for healing more and more every second of the day.
I'm a big believer in conversion. I pray that my entire life is about conversion -- deeper immersion in the things of God and love for His creation, especially for the human person. I pray that the words that the president spoke at the march about God's grace and unselfish love are things that he and all elected officials take to heart. I pray for wisdom. I pray that the truth about people being made in the image and likeness of God is known, believed in and acted on.
Stopping and focusing on the beauty of a child can change us. Making room for a child who isn't our responsibility by worldly, conventional standards can change her life and ours and transform the soul of our society.
I cried at the march because I believe healing is possible. I believe conversion is possible. The March for Life is the most encouraging event of the year -- every year it gets younger and more joyful. The president showing up raised things to a new level and made the media pay attention. I just pray that some of his words will help to make his a more tender heart. Based on the disaster that is the Democratic Party right now, I expect we will be seeing another four years of Donald Trump. Please, may they be more tender years. He said many of the right things in his March for Life speech. Please live and breathe them, Mr. President.
With God anything is possible.
As expected, the national propaganda organ for “The Party of Death™” censored the March for Life again. But you can bet, if there were five foul-mouthed lesbians wailing from a random Manhattan street corner instead, they’d provide instant wall-to-wall coverage — ad nauseam.
Damning with faint praise again from National Review.
Predictable.
There are 20 uses of the word ‘I’ in that woman’s short 9 paragraph article. Even though she used the President’s name, the piece is all about her feelings. Barf!
So much “I” in this writers heart despite her talk of others. Perhaps that is why she sees our President so imperfectly.
Even personally witness to his commitment to life and to the life of every child, born & unborn, she still seems not him but only the twisted impossible media’s creation. The conversion I was left hoping for is that the scales would fall from her eyes and she would throw off the fake boogeyman the press created.
Reminds me of the great quote from A Man For All Seasons...
MORE Why not be a teacher? You’d be a fine teacher. Perhaps even a great one.
RICH And if I was, who would know it?
MORE You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that.
The woman who wrote the article does appear a bit self-absorbed. Her comments at the end, hoping for Trump to have a "more tender heart" and then presuming that she needed to chide the President on "living and breathing" the words he spoke. . .implying that there exists an inherent contradiction. . .displayed a bit of over-the-top self-righteousness. . .not unlike what you displayed in your response to post #4.
thank you McBuff, #8
Thanks. You put it perfectly. She’s a Bill Bennett-Paul Ryan conservative. She can say righteous sounding phrases at the right time; that is, at the time she chooses. But on careful analysis, they often seem to be about her own brilliance.
Thanks for the gratuitous insult. In actuality, the woman would not have had an article to generate clicks if it was not for the President’s appearance at the rally. Her first sentence mentions the President whom she finds was to insult in the rest of her piece while focusing on her feelings. Barf alert isn’t strong enough for such tripe.
that should read *ways* to insult
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