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I have to think that a couple thousand motovate people (or a much smaller, well-trained and highly motovated group) could stop this execution.

You know, I don't post a lot - mostly I read and wait...and live my life...and I don't get too worked up about much...I do, however, feel compelled to share some recent events and changes in my life with everyone.

I attend a fairly-liberal Presbyterian church here in San Antonio. I'm actually a deacon to our college folks, and I am very active in the congregation. Some of you might not like the viewpoints of some of our members if you visited our church, but I know this is where the Holy Spriit wants me, and I am learning to see issues I have been dogmatic about in the past from a different perspective. It's been a good experience for me.

Because our church is the way it is, we don't talk a lot about the epic cosmic battle between good and evil :-), and we havn't yet song "Onward Christian Soldiers"...so I was very surprised when our minister, a woman, told this story in church last week:

Some time ago, A white headmaster in a South African school was told by the Board of the school that the school soccer team had to cancel a game they had scheduled against a team from a black school. This took place during the last days of apartheid, and the kind of mixing that this game would have involved would have caused a lot of scorn to come upon the school, its students, and the headmaster himself. When he was told he needed to stop the game from happening, he resigned. This ruined the man, as he was branded as a kaffir-lover by a number of his fellow white professionals.

When asked why he had gotten himself into this situation in the first place, and why he had quit rather than just scrubbing the game, the man said,

"When I die and stand before the Judge of Heaven, I believe he will look at me and ask to see my scars. If I have none to show him, he will ask me 'Was there nothing worth fighting for in your life?'"

My minister's point was: Jesus fought pain, wrath, temptation, Satan, and man himself to bring himself to the cross. He did this because he thought man's Salvation was worth fighting for.

I'm 30 years old. I don't have any scars. Maybe it's time to get a couple.

Absolutely beautiful. Welcome to the fray. If you want on the Terri ping list - anyone - please Freepmail me.

*** I'm 30 years old. I don't have any scars. Maybe it's time to get a couple. ***

Welcome, and thanks for your moving post.

There are many anti-death opportunities for the most defenseless in our society in San Antonio. I think Life Chain is coming up next month, but there are other opportunities that happen weekly.