Every school day, I spend a little time in our Adoration Chapel and I write a prayer that I read at the end of the school day to a group of parents who meet in the parking lot. If I have mentioned that before I’m sorry but yesterday as I walked out and began talking to them, I told them that my original prayer began “Dear Mary, I am so angry with your Son right now…” At that point, I put my pen down and tried to reason out why I was mad; just what it was that caused me to be not disappointed, but angry.

It dawned on me that I was really just counting on taking the easy way out. I’ve always been pro-life but I have never been as outspoken as I have been this year. There are many reasons for it and the dichotomy of the two candidates certainly helped. But the real reason is that I was kind of hoping that we could elect someone who would fight the fight for me and I could go back to my blissfully ignorant little life. Now I understand that I truly need to fight for pro-life issues because they are worth fighting for, not because they’re a good reason to vote for my candidate. I need to educate myself (and my friends) on how to fight within the political process and I don’t mean just marching down Pennsylvania Avenue once a year.

We have much to be encouraged about but there is still much to do. FOCA must be stopped and we need to make sure that no ‘consented euthanasia’ laws get placed on the books (yes, it is coming). Finally, I realize that there is another Presidential election in 4 years and everyone is searching for the next Republican to get behind but don’t forget that in 2 years, we’ll have another round of Senate elections and that will be the next chance to impact people who will confirm our Supreme Court Justices.