Wouldn't humans be fantastic creatures if we could only commit ourselves to practicing our ideas? The mind outruns the meager ability of the human will, weakened by worldliness and sin. But what separates humans from all the rest of creation is the fact that we can create beautiful ideas, even if we cannot put them into practice. We constantly dream of a better world, more focused on God and love for neighbor. We dream of feeding the poor, saving lost souls, and ending abortion. And yet, we often do not meet these lofty and noble goals, at least not on a large a scale as we would like. But why? So many people believe strongly in such objectives, but they don't assist in completing them, and it is therein that lies the great adversary of our age: apathy. Nationwide obsession with television and the Internet numbs the soul and breeds laziness.
To create a world of joy and peace, a world that already exists in the depths of the human soul, we must overcome this collective apathy and rise to the occasion. Young people must act on the beliefs they already have to bring this world into physical reality, for without conscious human effort, we will never have it.
So don't wait for us all to go pray at the abortuary together, don't wait for us all to find a time to go to adoration as a club. Don't wait to put that idea of yours into action. Say it and act on it. Create the Kingdom of God in your own heart, and it will appear on earth.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I thought you all might like to hear about it :)
I think part of the reason nothing ever gets accomplished is that we all go to these rallies and such, but you really haven't heard of any attempts to get a case up into the Supreme Court to repeal Roe v. Wade. I might be wrong on that, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not.
ReplyDeleteWell, you are right, but you have to think about it this way: the only case that we could possibly get taken to the Supreme Court would have to go down like this:
ReplyDeleteA woman has an abortion, basically against her will. The abortion doctor and others would have to goad her into it.
After contemplation, she realizes that her child has been killed. It would have to be not her fault, because otherwise she'd be brining herself to court for murder.
The lawsuit she would have to bring would entail that she did not want an abortion, but was forced into one. Then the question (which should be easily answered, but happens to be the sticky question in this matter) of whether the unborn child was a person or not would have to be solved.
The Supreme Court would have to rule that unborn children were people and overturn Roe v. Wade.
I believe that the reason this has not happened yet is that women who have abortions give their permission to abortion doctors to abort their children, and they can't sue the abortionists for something they asked them to do and signed legal documents to have done.