So, I'm trying to type this out as my 19 month-old is dumping the few remaining clothes we have left here (everything else is packed up to move) and jumping on me, so I might miss a key.
But I'm thinking about the election for President of the Stati Uniti, and how I would like to vote for Obama. I'd really like to vote for him, because he inspires this crazy hope in people, and it feels like we need that now. I like a lot of his policies.
But he seems to have unwavering support for that amorphous choice. After a great deal of thinking and praying, I can't vote for him, but I can't vote against him, either. And I know that conservative president don't always make conservative Court appointments (hello Nixon!), and that even if Roe was overturned, abortion would be legal in the states (such as California) that are liberal.
Nothing will change unless we change people's minds.
The only really pro-life thing I do is try to be a good mama, and make parenthood look as good as possible. So I don't complain about the normal stuff that happens when little ones are around. I just offer it up.
But that doesn't seem to be enough.
So I though of this idea, that is basically making a shrine and inside are these really beautiful icons of aborted babies (they are little saints, right?)... where it isn't put in people's faces unles they enter the shrine. But we can "see through this window into Heaven" and see these babies, and pray for them, just be with them... It seems like a start.
Who will help me with this project?
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I think that is a beautiful idea. I think that changing people's hearts involves bringing them to the truth through beauty and goodness. Your shrine is a great start. Let me know when I can come help!!!
anna
thanks, anna! I hope to meet with an Icon writer next week. I don't know if a traditional icon writer would be interested since it is a little out there, but you never know until you ask. I'll let you know.
:) In Christ, Laura
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