While attending our Rite For Life group meeting at Saint Bernards Church early this month, I do admit that I went into the meeting feeling discouraged and almost defeated. In the past few months, my friend Natalie and I have been feeling that we were almost begging people to come join us at our monthly meetings. I personally have been feeling that my friends were just coming to not hurt my feelings. We have tried everything to get people to come. We spoke in church, announced our meetings in our weekly church bulletin and told our friends, family, and co-workers of each and every meeting.

This month, I told myself that I was not going to beg anyone anymore and so I didn't. I went to the meeting dragging my feet and secretly thinking to myself that I was wasting my time and there was so much more that I could be doing at home.

Natalie and I put the coffee on and set our the doughnuts and waited for the Rectory door bell to ring. It did ring. It rang four separate times. This is better than nothing I thought. Our speaker for the evening came and he was the kindest most soft spoken man I had ever met. His name: Tom Lacey. Mr. Lacey proceeded to tell us he is the father of five and the husband of a very patient woman. "Angel" was the word that he used when referring to her. Mr. Lacy told us that he has been active in the Pro-Life Movement for over twenty years. He asked us if we had any questions, that he was there to educate us on any pro life matter that he could help us with. I shared with him of my feelings of despair, that nobody really seemed to care to much about this cause. A young friend of mine named Jen was at the meeting with us and she said, " I am being honest, at first I came to the meetings just to give you support, but after coming and listening I can truly say I am Pro Life."

Mr. Lacey spoke up and said that it does feel hopeless at times and that is when you have to find your niche in the movement and stick with that. Someone could be happy helping out at a pregnancy center or leading a church group or going to pray outside a Planned Parenthood each week as Mr. Lacey does. In reality there are so many things that a single person can do to find their "niche".

My point on writing about this is that between Mr. Lacey, my young friend Jen and my pro life partner in crime, Natalie, I left that meeting with a brand new outlook. Please don't get discouraged if you feel like you are not turning heads your way when you speak out for the Rite for Life. Take a breath, say a prayer and find your "niche". Never give up, our babies and our mothers need our voices.

I asked a group a kids ages three to twelve to tell me something about babies and their feelings for them. This is what they said:

Trinity  

Age 10 - I care for babies. I care for my baby brother Dominic. I can never leave him out of my sight. I would never want him to get hurt. I will always protect him. He can't do anything for himself yet. That is why he needs me. If he got hurt or sick I would be very upset. I love him so much. You should treat a baby the same way you want to be treated.

Kayla 

Age 3 - I like babies to drink bottles and play with toys. I like mommies to give presents and daddies to play with babies. I would like to hold a baby and I would sing the A B C's to make the baby feel good.

Cloey 

Age 5 - I love my baby brother. We take care of each other. Jesus wants us to be happy together. I love him so much because he is my baby brother.

DJ 

Age 12 - I think it is wrong to abort a baby because a baby is human life. Babies are cute and they need someone to take care of them. If we didn't have babies we wouldn't have a future.

Natalie 

Age 6 - I like babies! I like to feed them and play with them. Babies are nice and they don't hurt people. Sometimes they bite though.

Jada

Age 7 - I feel sad when mommies go to the Doctor and kill their baby. They are only tiny and they cry in the mommies belly and move in the mommies belly. It is not fair!

This is all from the mouth of babes!!!! This is how simple it should be.