A Messed Up World: Arrested for Bringing Terri Water
Family, Life, and the Body March 23rd, 2005Let’s see, adults who wish to remove the feeding and water tube to kill a disabled woman hold places of honor in our society and live as free people in no fear of the law while a child who tries to bring water to the dying and dehydrated Terri Schiavo is arrested. This seems like Bizarro World.
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March 23rd, 2005 at 11:11 pm
The Angel is now very confused. Why would this be “trespassing”? I mean would understand if the child was attempting to “kidnap” her, but he was not. In addition, why would it be wrong to give her water and nutrients that were not administered though tubes? Oh, what an ulcer the world must look to those in heaven. Sometimes I think that those in heaven cannot look upon us because it would cause too much grief, and I can not imagine there being that many tears and heartaches there.
March 24th, 2005 at 9:59 am
This is a case of the law having no heart. Technically it is trespass to encroach upon another’s property without permission, this type trespass is more akin to what happens when a restaurant or other business establishment ejects a person.
The real issue here is that we as a society have arrived here in this place, where small children are arrested for attempting to provide comfort to a dying woman.
The moral implications are enormous; we have allowed the judiciary to abandon morality for some other test of what is right and wrong.
March 24th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
What would they do with the water if they got it through to Terri? Do they expect her to sit up and drink it? Perhaps they’d pour it down her throat and hasten her demise by drowning her.
March 24th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
Barry,
Clearly it’s symbolic. However, there is solid evidence Terri has swallowed some water in the past. And besides, even moistening her tongue and mouth would be an act of compassion.
March 24th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
Luke 16:24 - And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Laz’arus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.’ Ok this may not be the “best” fit…she is not in flames, but I am sure her thirst is likely to be the same. In this example I guess just about anyone can fill in for “Abraham” for God uses many to fulfill his plans.
March 25th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
So many people who have written about the effort to save Terri have emphasized the hope that she will “recover.” On the other side, those who want to terminate her life say that because she has no higher brain function, she is already dead. It is time to address this serious error.
Terri is a miracle–a living person who is without sin, and without the capacity to sin. For fifteen years, she has lived as sinless a life as an unborn baby. She has never angered. She has never cursed. She has never experienced an impure thought. She has never defied her father or her mother–and how beautifully and steadfastly have they honored their bond with her. She has served as a perfect example of sinless devotion.
Who among us, in prayer, has not been frustrated at our inability to shut out the world, to give ourselves to God in perfect concentration and devotion? Is not Terri’s example a gift to us?
Some may say that to live in Terri’s state is somehow less than human. This is wrong! It is the life our first father and mother, Adam and Eve, led in Eden before, through Eve’s transgression, sin entered the world. Terri is living in that primordial perfect state.
We were created in the image of God, but we marred that image through the disobedience of Adam. Every child is conceived in the same perfection as our first parents, and our Savior, but takes on Adam’s sin at birth–that’s why even at the moment of birth, a baby’s first act is to cry for her lost innocence. Through Terri, we have a living example of God’s perfect image, uncontaminated by sin. It is not for Terri that we fight to restore life-giving nutrients and water; she will have eternal life with her heavenly Father when she leaves us. It is for the gift she gives to us by her blessed example of a sinless life on this earth.