choosing life

I've been thinking all week about what I might say about the 41st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.

But I really hadn't come to any conclusions.

Life is...hard.  And complicated.  And sometimes very sad.  And it seems that America has largely accepted that abortion is a regrettable solution to hard, complicated, sad realities.

But for me that's not enough.

The lesson of the past year for me is that the hard, complicated sad realities are also the ones that evoke greatness.   And beauty.  And love.

 I'm tired of accepting regrettable solutions.  We're made for greatness.  We're made for beauty. We're made for love.


 I want more of those things.  I want less compromise, less mediocrity, less violence and less depression.  I want us to choose life, and to live it fully.