When I consider that all of us had to suffer ( did you find yourself thinking about Terri when you lifted your glass...I did. Did you lose your appetite if her suffering entered your head while eating, I sure did. It felt like a weight was pressing down on my heart. And I experienced an impotence I had not felt in a long time, if ever.
The schindlers, every day they were inflicting terri with such torture.... I still cannot fully comprehend that this happened in front of our eyes. That we allowed a child of God to be executed in front of her parents while a monster mocked everything that is right, protected by our laws.
My gosh...we had to witnenss children being ARRESTED for carrying cups of WATER!
The SCHINDLERS were all but STRIPPED SEARCHED to make sure they did not place a piece of ice upon their beloved dtr's lips.
There must be a special place in hell for the people that ordered and carried out this gruesome execution.
Without my husband and SO MANY OF YOU...I would have felt more alone than I ever have in my life.
Terri's magnificent fight to live and her parents amazing battle to SAVE HER LIFE and her siblings...did you not just want to hug them so hard they couldn't move?...all of them...have changed my life forever. I will never be quite the same.
Republic, I feel exactly like this too. I keep coming back here tonight. Kinda like this is where we have lived for so long, that I can't leave here now.! Just played several games of Skipbo with my 14year old only because she needed something to do. But my heart is still here.
I feel the same way. But the heaviness on my heart is even greater because of finding out this is not an isolated incident (well - having a judge order the execution is) but that apparantly there are thousands of disabled and elderly this is happening to all over the country. I had no idea! I knew the death culture people wanted it but I didn't know the selfishness and depravity in our country had gone that far. I feel the same feelings I felt when my eyes were opened on the issue of abortion about 17 years ago. Just a horrible heaviness in my spirit. James Dobson had a fantastic interview today, Joni Earickson Tada was on - it was really good. Thanks to pollywog for posting that link.
All for tonight - need to read my Bible for a while.
Republic wrote-->Terri's magnificent fight to live and her parents amazing battle to SAVE HER LIFE and her siblings...did you not just want to hug them so hard they couldn't move?...all of them...have changed my life forever. I will never be quite the same.**
I know exactly what you mean. I agree with your entire post. I've never been so upset in my life, and I've had many heartaches over the years. This is still hard to believe. There were actually times of hope of saving Terri, only to be smashed on the rocks of despair.
Do you think they even planned the roller coaster that way too? The media never explained what the blank Felos meant by what he did in Terri's room.
I think I'm pretty much still in a state of shock. The bottom line to how I'm feeling is "I can't believe they really actually killed her." Terri had her tube pulled before, but it always ended up going back in. They actually killed her, and all we could do was witness it.
I didn't spend much time online, today. But I felt I had to come back and say this.
I'm so sorry about the Pope. It feels like the Twilight Zone.