A Beautiful Life

One year ago today, a forty-one year old disabled woman by the name of Terri Schiavo lost her thirteen-day struggle against starvation and dehydration -- a withholding of food and water deemed "merciful" and "peaceful" by a corrupt legal system, a brainwashed media, and a hardened heart. Merciful for Michael Schiavo, who would no longer be bound by his wedding promises: "Till Death Do Us Part"... even though he'd already broken those promises by having children with another woman while his bride lay helpless in bed. Peaceful for all those who simply washed their hands of this crime and turned in the other direction; modern Pilates too cowardly to look Terri in the eyes as she writhed and attempted in vain to speak, quite obviously in pain, dying a death no compassionate human being would dare call "peaceful".

Go here to read An Open Letter to Michael Schiavo

And this is today's Old Testament reading. Coincidence? God-incidence, more like...

Wisdom 2: 1a, 12-22

The wicked said among themselves, thinking not aright:
“Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us;
he sets himself against our doings,
Reproaches us for transgressions of the law
and charges us with violations of our training.
He professes to have knowledge of God
and styles himself a child of the LORD.
To us he is the censure of our thoughts;
merely to see him is a hardship for us,
Because his life is not like that of others,
and different are his ways.
He judges us debased;
he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.
He calls blest the destiny of the just
and boasts that God is his Father.
Let us see whether his words be true;
let us find out what will happen to him.
For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him
and deliver him from the hand of his foes.
With revilement and torture let us put him to the test
that we may have proof of his gentleness
and try his patience.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death;
for according to his own words, God will take care of him.”
These were their thoughts, but they erred;
for their wickedness blinded them,
and they knew not the hidden counsels of God;
neither did they count on a recompense of holiness
nor discern the innocent souls’ reward.

May you rest in peace with Christ, Terri; may your soul be filled with all the glorious riches of Heaven.