Here's Your Sign

This is our sign to the world that we believe in the sanctity of human life and that we are praying for an end to what some people dare to term healthCARE. Would you care to join us? Even if your parish isn't organizing an official campaign you can still get on board with 40 Days for Life. It runs from Sept. 23- Nov. 1 and has the potential to change hearts and save lives.

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The Sunday that we brought this sign home from Mass and, as a family, erected it in our front yard, I was moved to tears at how significant and what an enormous impact something so simple could have on our children.

While driving home I was trying to devise a plan that would allow us to explain the sign and answer their questions without actually adding the word "abortion" to their four and two-year-old vocabularies and then having to explain that most violent and inexplicable of concepts to them. (Are you this uptight about censoring and determining age-appropriateness of weighty subjects? Am I overboard and crazy for doing this like I sometimes feel like?) I didn't come up with anything.

But once home when they asked why we were putting up the sign and what it said we answered them by reading the baby side aloud and then stating that we are telling everyone that we love little babies even before they are born and even when they are still in their mommies' tummies and that they need to be protected and taken care of and that we are praying that everybody else will, too. And it was as simple as that. They instantly thought it was a great idea and acted like the idea the sign represented was just as natural as life itself.