The Heavens are still telling the Glory of God
Yep, God was Sovereign over all of Creation before November 6th and He will continue to reign as sovereign throughout Obama’s presidency and infinitely beyond; despite many of His friends choosing to replace His age-old Law with that of a 47-year old Democrat from Chicago/Hawaii/Kenya.
It is quite interesting that the other day Obama appointed Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff for his administration. Emanuel (God is with us…?) is an irrepressible and uncompromising liberal gentleman known to thrust steak knives into the table whilst shouting out opponent’s names followed by ‘dead, dead, dead’ (LifeSiteNews.com). Emanuel has been not-so-lovingly described by colleagues and friends alike as being an attack dog in enforcing policies and in his general political demeanor. Sounds like a pleasantly approachable starting point for the Obama administration.
How and Why Christians, Conservatives and Christian-Conservatives (yes, they are separate somehow) Are Being Picked Out and Thrown Out
“The others” can focus their well-planned and non-strenuous rebellions because they can so easily target us. Our particular (peculiar) moral blend makes us not unlike elephants standing in the corner to an onlooker. Among ourselves, however, we perceive innumerable difference causing much division, and as a result, much weakening. Not only are most intentions noble in the initial stages, but they are more often than not, not just good intentions but good intentions bathed in blood, sweat, and tears from the backbreaking labour of educating and protesting, protesting and educating. Yes, friends we are being faithful to our call, but faithfulness must exceed far beyond the creation of a hub for change. This hub must connect with all of the others, or else it will turn in on itself and become an instrument for our own demise and our enemy’s gain (and ridicule-although this is a secondary loss). How much more would the Lord of the harvest be enabled to bless us with prayers answered (and souls saved) if our efforts were united. The success of one pro-life organization is a personal success for each one of us.
This past weekend, I took in “Amazing Grace” a movie about the life and work of William Wilberforce, a civil rights warrior for the abolition of slavery in the 18th century. I am inspired. I noticed one thing in particular, and that was the UNITY of the abolitionists. We MUST unite, or we will not be successful. If we unite only to become more inconspicuous, so be it- although we can still find ways of being inconspicuous whilst remaining true to our call-as did Wilberforce and his league.
So this means collaborating. This means communicating and striving for more transparency. As we know, one of the sure “fruits” of the enemy is division among well-intentioned people.
“Whoever is not for us is against us!”
I recently became perplexed when I thought about the idea of division and how in Sacred Scripture Jesus tells us that He did not come to bring peace but to bring a sword. **enter verse about turning family members against one another here**. I see this not as division but as the unifying of two groups each at their respective poles. I believe that Christ’s second coming will constitute the ultimate fulfillment of this work of unity. He will return to separate the sheep from the goats, once and for all. In this era of mercy, God is allowing people to choose life or death. Sadly, many of us will see our own family members choose death; some of us already see our family members making grave morally-wrong decisions. But this is where mercy comes in- our chance and the chance for our family and friends to “join the right team”.
You may be thinking, as I am, about those “well-meaning” members of our society who are seemingly faithful but who have begun to compromise for the sake of an uninterrupted “peaceful” state of life and, to put it bluntly, an unchristian love of comfort and of human esteem. It seems that there is very little to be said here except that there is a new generation of young people rising up who have JPII’s words “BE NOT AFRAID!” still ringing in their ears. Indeed, my dear friends in Christ, we must not be afraid. We must not even think of sacrificing one small element of our faith in the effort to maintain our image among our peers. We know that there is a difference between right and wrong and even when wrong is flanked with right…it is still wrong. At the risk of getting too political (here, my roots and my principle passion will inevitably show), allow me to highlight one very concrete example of preferring comfort over the Law of God. Yes, I am going to go there. I am talking about voting for and/or supporting a candidate whose personal doctrine explicitly or implicitly (for surely they are one in the same) involves upholding the culture of death: that is, the killing of over 100, 000 babies each year in our country. This is unacceptable. There is no amount of money that can be offered to the poor, no amount of carbon tax, no amount of social funding that can come remotely close- “proportionally” -to the devastation resulting from the mass destruction of human life.
One cannot know the height, or depth, or breadth of what it means to be pro-life
A very wise priest recently told me that the term “pro-life” like so many other buzz words has become diluted from its originally beautiful and supernatural form. “Are you pro-life?” should not be a reasonable question with a rehearsed yes/no response. Being pro-life means being in favour of living; living not only for beauty but also for its pain and for its power to save. We cannot pretend to understand the full “height breadth and depth” of this gift of life. So therefore we cannot isolate its parameters or even its threats. If God’s enemy’s are at work always and everywhere, and God is love and the source of all life, how much more will the affronts against life be complex, full of appealing lies and embedded comfortably in a massive “grey area”? There is, therefore, no small sliver of room for overlooking certain moral evils for the sake of other goods. We are taught as children that little white lies will always come back to haunt us, and to extrapolate from this little paradigm-any slackening on one’s esteem for the life of another human being is a massive loss for all of society. It is not a personal choice. The “choice” to kill one person is choosing the upheaval of a society. Because once one death can be rationalized for certain reasons, all other deaths can therefore be rationalized.
You can predict a great deal of demise from a country that pays no heed to Wisdom as she is revealed through history and through her students, the Saints.
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