Pelosi could still surprise us all and I'll tell you for why: the same degree of grit and intransigence and "I'll spit in your eye; I believe what I want regardless of how you threaten me" could be turned 180 degrees towards the Kingdom of God if the right opportunity for martyrdom presented itself. I consider it improbable (1. *most* of…
Pelosi could still surprise us all and I'll tell you for why: the same degree of grit and intransigence and "I'll spit in your eye; I believe what I want regardless of how you threaten me" could be turned 180 degrees towards the Kingdom of God if the right opportunity for martyrdom presented itself. I consider it improbable (1. *most* of the stories of martyrs indicate that they have had long training in humility, obedience, self-denial out of love for others; 2. In these fraught modern times who could be found to murder a politician in odium fidei rather than for literally any other reason?) but that just makes for a better story three hundred years from now when the jewel has been well polished by the telling.
I pray however that she repents in the very ordinary workaday manner and then loves* a life of prayer and penance. We ought not to pray that anyone be put to the test (ourselves included.)
Pelosi could still surprise us all and I'll tell you for why: the same degree of grit and intransigence and "I'll spit in your eye; I believe what I want regardless of how you threaten me" could be turned 180 degrees towards the Kingdom of God if the right opportunity for martyrdom presented itself. I consider it improbable (1. *most* of the stories of martyrs indicate that they have had long training in humility, obedience, self-denial out of love for others; 2. In these fraught modern times who could be found to murder a politician in odium fidei rather than for literally any other reason?) but that just makes for a better story three hundred years from now when the jewel has been well polished by the telling.
I pray however that she repents in the very ordinary workaday manner and then loves* a life of prayer and penance. We ought not to pray that anyone be put to the test (ourselves included.)
*what a very fine typo. Lives.