Posted on 03/28/2005 9:05:11 AM PST by woollyone
Another bump.
Woollyone, God bless you for the courage of your convictions. What an apt depiction of this whole thing: lost in a Salvador Dali painting. Surrealism is abundant.
How was bringing the dog a blessing to others?
I must agree with you. I am a convert to Catholicism and the same thing stood out to me during her beautiful account of the scene at the hospice.
Let's use this situation to come together and be unified and perhaps take away a better understanding of each other and our differences in doctrines.
I grew up in a family and neighborhood that was predominantly protestant and 'unspokenly anti-Catholic.' As I grew older, I realized that this subconcious negative view towards Catholics often is a result of a lack of understanding of the Catholic faith. I'm not being hostile in what I'm saying, but may I suggest that we educate ourselves about denominations and faiths that differ from our own? By this I do not mean if you're a Baptist - go to your Baptist minister and ask him to teach you about the Jewish faith. Go to the synagoge and ask, observe, participate in their service. Go to a Catholic church and do the same. Go to a Presbyterian church and do the same. By asking and learning with a 'when in Rome' philosophy we step outside of the 'fishbowl' and learn more objectively and without bias. We all worship and praise the same God in heaven. Our forms of worship may differ but ya know what, that's ok.
I'm sure the words weren't intentional to 'hurt or offend' but please be careful by hidden motivations when you say something like this or how someone perceives it. There is a lot of anti-Catholic retorhic out there that is misinformed and can be damaging to those who honestly 'just don't know' what we really believe as Catholics - or what other denominations agree respectively. It's ok to disagree. But it's best to disagree with an educated opinion.
Back to a positive note - thank you for your beautiful account and going. You were blessed to observe the butterfly and to have the image of a Salvador Dali painting. That is well put. It is warped and makes sense to no one. God will use this tragic situation for good somehow. He always does although we may not see it. May God bless you and continue to give you strength and perserverence! Keep up the pro-life fight!
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On Monday, March 28, 2005 at approximately 11:00 am est, seven American citizens met with Representative David Simmons, Chairman of the Florida House Judiciary Committee to A. urge that our leaders save Terri's life and to declare to Representative Simmons that we didn't believe all possible had been done to save an innocent, woman from a painful, gruesome death by dehydration and starvation as ordered per a guardianship judge who lacks compassion. A guardianship judge should be compassionate whether the ward is Terri Schiavo or Jane Doe. B. demand that an exploratory committee be created regarding the impeachment of George W. Greer, Sixth Circuit Court, Pinellas County, Florida. (details being withheld at this time to protect the integrity of the process.) C. demand that Guardianship Laws in Florida are revisited In total to protect all Floridians and their families from bad law.
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I am a conservative Catholic and I wasn't offended by your comments about the Catholic service. I realize that there are big differences in our prayer "styles" but we will all realize when we meet God that we were all praying to the same "Guy" just in different manners. I was very moved by your article on the goings on at the hospice. I have tried desperately to find a silver lining and you found one for me, thank you! God is such an amazing Father that He is there during our darkest hours.
Thank you for the nice comment and for understanding that I have and had no heart to put down anyone's faith.
His peace to you.
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There is something about the living death of Terri Shiavo that unnerves me. An eternity of nothingness in personality, neither heaven nor hell. Yet at the same time I cannot consider her brain death to be the absence of intelligence or biographical life. Her cells improvized during those twelve days without the feeding tube. So perhaps they are intelligent, personified within their microscopic lives. If we were to let her starve, there would still be nothingness in personality and she would also dissolve. I can therefore settle my moral conscience by supporting her continued biological life. Yet at the same time I must draw upon all resources granted to me by god. Those with minds and bodies will be given more of both with emphasis on the greater life of the mind. Those with only bodies must be given more body. A political preference for functional citizens seems irrelevant in the face of our duty to the universe. We must strive in the river of God's domain to cause all human creatures at once and as a whole to achieve their supreme living capacity.
um...you lost me before I enen finished your first sentence. Sorry.
a ping to you...and welcome home
Great post. God Bless all those praying and making their voices heard amidst this moral insanity.
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God bless you guys! Adding this to Terri Bookmark Mountain with headline [Good Friday Protesters for Terri] for reference purposes. Thank you for writing all this!
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Wow! Thank you for pouring your heart out on this. I feel it. And I have a close one who will be comforted by it. Thank you again and FReegards....
If she is semi-conscious, and there's much reason to believe she is, how much morphine would it take to keep her out of a living hell? It's evil. No other word describes what's happening to her. But one thing I've been told, a family saying that I don't know how far it dates back: "God will only allow you to feel so much suffering." He may comfort you with His tingling presence. Or, you may simply pass out. But I don't give the other side or those in doubt that satisfaction. So I hadn't mentioned it that much.
When we strip someone of all mercy but God's, that is evil, short and simple.
--FReegards....
This whole thing is like a Dali painting. I had never thought of it that way, but it makes sense.
To me it seems more and more like the prelude to something. Something dark or perhaps something good, I don't know. I do know that a corner has been turned.
y.v.w.
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Thanks!
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