The inspiration:
A story:
My hair is soaked with sweat, I can feel it roll down my back and between my breasts. I’m nearly naked but, shit, I lost all sense of modesty months ago. I hit The Wall about 30 minutes ago, my lungs heave, my thighs quiver with exhaustion and my focus has become so narrow …
The finish is closer, I know it …
Did I scream? I think I screamed.
“Honey! You did it!”
I look up at my husband’s smiling face, tears streaming down his cheeks. Then I look down at our tiny new daughter resting on my chest.
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Now, your turn.
She had no idea I was behind her, no idea what I was thinking, no idea of the dark places my mind went as I watched her, day after day. And I knew nothing about her: was she single? Married? Dating? What did she do? Sales clerk? Stay-at-home mom? Marine?
She turned the next corner. I went straight.
[…] This one was a little bit tricky, but I hope I pulled it off. I wanted to write so much more, you would not believe. Enjoy this tale of someone who is not a victim. […]
Jiggers, it’s the (nsfw) spam damn filters!
oh my!
i ran a long way. i produced some internal chemicals that made me feel good. but in reality that “run/exercise” was totally self indulgent. i did nothing for the syrian child washed up on the shores of greece or the little heads they ship from “planned parenthood”. just a poser i guess . or maybe “i’m female hear me roar” about what no one knows.
>EVANGELIUM VITAE
To the Bishops
Priests and Deacons
Men and Women religious
lay Faithful
and all People of Good Will
on the Value and Inviolability
of Human Life
INTRODUCTION
1. The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus’ message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as “good news” to the people of every age and culture.
At the dawn of salvation, it is the Birth of a Child which is proclaimed as joyful news: “I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord” (Lk 2:10-11). The source of this “great joy” is the Birth of the Saviour; but Christmas also reveals the full meaning of every human birth, and the joy which accompanies the Birth of the Messiah is thus seen to be the foundation and fulfilment of joy at every child born into the world (cf. Jn 16:21).
When he presents the heart of his redemptive mission, Jesus says: “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (Jn 10:10). In truth, he is referring to that “new” and “eternal” life which consists in communion with the Father, to which every person is freely called in the Son by the power of the Sanctifying Spirit. It is precisely in this “life” that all the aspects and stages of human life achieve their full significance.
The incomparable worth of the human person >
http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html
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It was beautiful, the way she loped into the crosswalk. She was running down the sidewalk, and just ran out in front of me, expecting all would be well. She was beautiful, she was jogging, she was female, the world was her oyster.
I almost regretted taking that right, and mowing her down. Almost.