| Saturday, May 05, 2007 |
| Provoked |
 Came across this photo randomly in some facebook group. I thought it was quite thought-provoking.
Who are we, really, to judge? To hate? To protest? I'm not sure. It reminds me of a time, about 6 years ago, when I was really into the whole "Rock for Life" movement. They are a pro-life, teen oriented, punk rock goth hippy post modern organization that, among many other things, makes T shirts and buttons and patches that say things like "Abortion is Murder", "Abortion is Homicide", "Face it, Abortion Kills", etc (I must admit, I kind of like the shirt that says 'Former Embryo", that's pretty clever).
Well anyway, in my late teens I wore some of this stuff. And when I was in Vancouver, doing my DTS with YWAM, I had a revelation. I was sitting on Commercial Drive, with my baggy pants and my "Abortion is Homicide" patches, and I suddenly thought, "what if a girl walked by me, who had had an abortion, and saw my patch....and then later I see her again and try to tell her about the love of God?" I realized at that moment, that she would never listen to me..that I was speaking a message far more damaging than I could imagine, that her first impression of me would be that I was judging and condemning her. Why would she listen to me? I'm not saying it's not true or that we shouldn't stand up for what we believe.. But I do know that I was changed that day. And since then, I've definitely thought alot more about things before I took my stand.
Labels: Abortion, Commercial Drive, DTS, Homosexuality, Rock For Life, YWAM |
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| Saturday, March 03, 2007 |
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Well nice job everybody on the quiz. Thanks for humoring me :) Able Baker was my aunt and uncle by the way...pretty impressive job!
Anyway, so I had a bad experience earlier today. My doctor's appt. was scheduled this morning for my immigration application. In Cananda, in order to become a perminant resident I have to have a physical done by a government appointed doctor, and pay him $200 in cash..yeah shady that's what I thought!!
So my appt. was this little unmarked office on Commercial Drive, at 10:10. So I show up at 9:50 so that I was early and could make sure I had everything...and the lights were all out and the door was locked. So I think to myself, okay, maybe they open at 10. I wait.....10 comes, nothing.. 10:10 comes...nothing.. 10:20, 10:30.. meanwhile I am standing outside a locked door, in the freezing cold, trying to figure out what is going on. Finally I give up and go home where I call the office to leave a message saying I was there and they weren't...and lo and behold, someone answers the phone. So I explain to the lady my confusion as to why she is answering when I just waited in the freezing cold for a half hour.. Come to find out that the PHONE NUMBER WAS WRONG ON THE WEBSITE!!! Ugh!!! So this doctor has 2 offices, and they accidentally put the commercial drive's address with the Richmond phone number. And when I made my appt I thought I was making it for Commercial Drive.. I was soooooo angry... the lady's like "Yeah we need to change that" @#$&# right you need to change that!!!! Oh was I angry..
So now I have to make a new appt at the right office, and that could take weeks.. UGH!!Labels: Commercial Drive, Immigration |
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