What Do We Learn from Ms. Schiavo?

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I have searched and searched for God's hand in this affair. Why doesn't He intervene? Why does He allow this to continue? Of course, there are no answers to questions about purpose because His purpose is beyond what we can know.

On a lesser plane though, we each receive the instruction we are inclined by the Holy Spirit to receive, and I thought I would share what I have learned through this whole terrible ordeal.

On Good Friday the words "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do," resonated throughout the day and throughout the weekend. We still do not know what we do. We are still ignorant, and we are still crucifying the innocent. The thin veneer of civility that we call civilization can be scratched off with a fingernail. Our risible attempts to prove that we are somehow more "advanced," more "civilized," more "compassionate" than the rabble that had Jesus crucified are belied by all of the events surrounding this innocent woman.

What God said to me is abandon your pretensions of culture, civility, kindness, humanity, all of your pretensions. This is what you are and what you ever have been and without My grace what you ever shall be. Humanity is humanity, fallen away from God, dependent upon human abilities to come to decisions and make judgments.

I am deeply saddened, though truth to tell not shocked, at having the curtain drawn back once again from this illusion. The police guarding Terri Schiavo have stated that they would have fought with agents sent by the Governor rather than allow her to live--what more evidence do we need of Roman Centurions? We could go on making analogies, but to what purpose? The point has been made. We think we are socially, ethically, morally, philosophically, and intellectually advanced. In fact, we are nothing more than we were in the time of Jesus, and perhaps a little less.

The real sorrow of this is that it is such a paltry lesson to learn at the price of a life. And yet, if we are to advance in grace, we must learn and relearn and relearn and relearn.

If something does not change soon, Ms. Schiavo will be with God and we will be diminished both for her loss and for its cause. It is our duty as Christians to remind the whole world of this innocent woman's wrongful death and to seek its remedy both legally and by changing the hard and misshapen hearts of those who make our laws.

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Once again our connection with first century Christians comes to the top of my mind. As you point out, despite our feelings of advancement and superiority over that long ago time, we have not moved far foward. Perhaps that is one of the great goods that God is showing us from this sad situation ... that we must be vigilant.

Well written. We each are given gifts and each gift can be turned to reminding the world, changing the law.

Very True Steven.

I do see the hand of God in the Pope getting a feeding tube today though. God is speaking through both of these people me thinks.

As a Christian nurse... I have to say... it was a good thing to let her go in peace. Dying is NOT the worst thing that could have happened to her. If she was, in fact, saved - she will walk with Christ. Every Christian aspires to just that. Why would anyone attempt to deny that to her?

As a Christian nurse... I have to say... it was a good thing to let her go in peace. Dying is NOT the worst thing that could have happened to her. If she was, in fact, saved - she will walk with Christ. Every Christian aspires to just that. Why would anyone attempt to deny that to her?

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