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Posted by DariaSockey in Family on Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:05 PM
It’s almost midnight. My daughter just left on a bus headed to Washington, D.C. After travelling all night long, she’ll spend a day marching and sightseeing, get back on the bus at 4pm, and be back here around midnight. Thank heaven the weather forecast is for a high of 52 degrees. No maternal worries this year about hypothermia, pneumonia, or buses sliding on icy roads. My own mother never allowed me to go on the March for Life when I was in high school. These same fears, coupled with her vivid imagination (daughter getting lost, mugged,or murdered) made the very idea out of the questions, no matter how much I begged. When I finally got my way as a junior in college, she must have spent the entire day in prayer for my safety!
Katherine is a high school senior, and will be attending college in California next year, so this is her last March for quite a while. One or more of us have gone to the March every year since 1996, travelling from the various locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio where we’ve lived. I wonder who will go next year? Perhaps it will be my turn.
And my goodness! Next year this time we will have had a presidential election. I wonder…will we be marching in 2013 with joyful expectation that this country might have a chance at becoming a safer place for the unborn? Or will we be marching with the same grim, dogged determination to just not give up, no matter what? Tell us what you think. Or tell your own March for Life story if you didn’t already respond to Lisa Hendy’s post on this topic last week.
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My 22 year old daughter is in Washington today with a college group from the Midwest. They did run into a bit of rough weather—the kind that makes us moms worry! Anyway, all is well now. All of us moms will be praying for their safe return today! How wonderful to see the next generation taking up the pro-life cause!
This is the third year in a row I’ll be absent—the longest absence since 1993—since we’re still living overseas. I was able to bring my mom, niece and 14-month-old daughter to the last one I attended. We’ll be stateside in a few months and plan to go back next year. Until then, we’re praying with you and for you from Italy.
I have never been able to talk any of my kids into going. We don’t have a bus from our parish, but the nearby Catholic high school does. My kids go to public school, and since the March is always on a week day, it is difficult to miss school. They have a finals policy at our school that makes it very worthwhile not to miss any school. I am disappointed that none of them have chosen to experience the March for Life. Since no one around them is going, it is not on their radar. We plan to say the rosary tonight or go to the special Mass that will occur at our parish. I guess I would have to say that none of my kids seem overly concerned about abortion, and I am wondering if I have done something wrong. I have been a 40 days for life volunteer, and all of them have come there with me at some point.
Susie,
A word of encouragement to you—as you know, you are planting the seeds by your actions and by modeling the desired behaviors for your children (rosary, mass, 40 Days for Life, etc.). Keep the faith that God will water what you are doing as a mom and faithful Christian in the fight for the unborn. You never know what is percolating in their minds and hearts, whether consciously or not. Peace be with your spirit, sister.
My girls are on their way home now—it’s a 24 hr. bus ride from DC to our town, so they’ll be home tonight. It was their first time their, and I know (thank you cell phones and texting) that they had an amazing pilgrimage.
I didn’t find it, too scary or crazy as people imagine. On the contrary, it was truly a sight to behold…Glad you let your daughter go.
Check this article about the March from a young person’s perspective: http://www.miamiarch.org/ip.asp?op=Article_1212815130832
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