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Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World
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Lila Grace Rose
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To my sister Caterina

Contents

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Note from the Author
Dare to Fight for a Better World
Part 1: Getting Started
1. Chapter 1: Let Your Heart Break
2. Chapter 2: Find Your Heroes
3. Chapter 3: Know Your Gifts
4. Chapter 4: Know Your Worth
5. Chapter 5: Let God Find You
6. Chapter 6: Find Your Cause
7. Chapter 7: Just Start
Part 2: Overcoming
1. Chapter 8: Prepare to Stand Alone
2. Chapter 9: Leave Your Comfort Zone
3. Chapter 10: Build a Team
4. Chapter 11: Expose the Evil
5. Chapter 12: Embrace Their Pain
6. Chapter 13: Trust God
7. Chapter 14: Find Your Rock
8. Chapter 15: Be Teachable
9. Chapter 16: Focus
10. Chapter 17: Expect Resistance from Within
11. Chapter 18: Keep the Pressure On
12. Chapter 19: Make a Mistake, Get Up Again
Part 3: Coming Home
1. Chapter 20: Learn to Pivot
2. Chapter 21: Love the Ones Youre Given
3. Chapter 22: Embrace Mercy
4. Chapter 23: Learn to Grieve
5. Chapter 24: Find Your Heart
6. Chapter 25: Celebrate Life Unconditionally
7. Chapter 26: Beware of False Compassion
8. Chapter 27: Begin Anew
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Praise for Fighting for Life
Copyright

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Stories in this book reflect the authors recollection of events. Dialogue has been recreated from memory or transcribed from recordings. Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of those depicted.

Bad dream again? Joe asked.

I nodded. Wed been married only a few months, but this conversation had become something of a morning ritual. Newlywed life in our little apartment in Berkeley, California, was beautiful in so many waysexcept for the lack of a dishwasherand yet, even wedded bliss hadnt stopped the nightmares.

This nightmare was a variation on an old theme. I was back in my parents house, the house in which Id grown up. A disaster had just happened or seemed imminent. I was downstairs in our dining room when I heard the weak but piercing cry of an infant. My heart pounding, I raced up the tall staircase toward the sound. Once upstairs, I followed the cries to my old bedroom and rushed in. The shades were drawn and the room was dark.

Where is the crying coming from? I wondered as I frantically searched the room. The sound intensified as I neared the bed. Rummaging through the blankets and pillows, I found nothing. The sound, I realized, was coming from underneath the bed. I fell to my knees on the wooden floor and looked under the bed frame.

There was just enough light to see a shallow gray bucket. Inside the bucket was a naked baby girl, flailing to keep her head above the water and crying desperately. Terrified, I pulled the bucket toward me, the water splashing all around. I picked up the baby and nestled her against my shirt. Cold and trembling, she clung to me, still wailing profusely.

How long has she been here? Where is her mother? I tried to dry her off with my clothes and warm her body with mine, but the more I tried to comfort her, the more she cried. She was inconsolable, as if her ability to be soothed was damaged beyond repair. Somehow I knew she had been left in that bucket to die. At that moment, I felt the abandonment she felt, the total fear that comes with deprivation of human love and touch. Is this what a child feels when abandoned by her parents? The dream ended with me holding her in my arms, uncertain what to do next.

I have been having nightmares like this since childhood. In each one, someoneusually a child and sometimes one of my own younger brothers or sistersis in danger, and I try to help. Always alone, I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to do something.

In my dreams, the threat is amorphous, vague, uncertain. As I learned at an early age, however, there are evil forces in the world that are tangible and real. They violate the dignity of the human person, especially the vulnerable, and brutalize the most defenseless. As in my dreams, these forces routinely deprive infants of the warmth and love of their mothers, and the damage they do to them is far worse than the worst of my nightmares. The cause to which Ive dedicated my lifes work has brought me face-to-face with some of these forces, and Ive seen evil I can never forget.

I got involved in the pro-life cause as a teenager. Over the next decade, I discovered thousands of others who also wanted to take action to defend the vulnerable. Together we have committed to supporting mothers and fathers in need, educating others about the violence of the abortion industry, and working toward total legal protection for every preborn child.

When I first got involved, I had a strong desire to do something meaningful with my life. Deep down, I think we all want that. I also had a strong sense that I had a responsibility to do something good for the world, to help those in need. Each one of us possesses a conscience and the ability to reason, and we can choose to develop our sense of right and wrong or bury it. But burying it, not doing the work to form our consciences so that we know when to stand up for what is right, is a great poverty that will only bring us unhappiness.

As a Christian, I believe that both our conscience and the responsibility that comes with it is a gift from God. I believe that each of us has the power to choose good but with that freedom we also have the capacity to sin. And this is why the world is so broken.

Our natures are wounded by sin, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, tearing a line between good and evil right through every human heartand through all human hearts.

But we arent doomed to evil. We can love. We can sacrifice. We can fight for what is right and choose to seek healing for ourselves and the world around us, despite the woundedness. We can dare to make our world better.

Our hearts response to the needs of the world shapes the causes we take on. What breaks our hearts? What captures our attention? What makes us angry? What brings out the fire in our souls when we see something wrong? These are indicators and starting places. Looking back, I can see how my dreamsor my nightmaresreflect the burden laid on my heart.

Perhaps you can relate. You have a desire to make a difference. Something has captured your attention and aroused your concern. The more you learn about the problem, the more concerned you become. You feel you should do something, but you dont know exactly what or how. If so, Ive written this book just for you.

I cant tell you exactly what your path will look like or what your road map for action should be, but I can give you the most important lessons of my own lifelong battle to inspire your tactics and strategies. When we have the right foundations, and when we understand how to grow personally and take action, we can live out our individual callings and help change the world for the better.

This book shares the lessons I have learned in my own work to build one of the worlds leading pro-life organizations, Live Action, to grow our movement for justice, and to grow personally. In part 1 are some foundational principles to get you started. It is also the story of the founding of Live Action and the early lessons I learned as a new activist. Part 2 is designed to give you tools to persevere in your mission. In part 3, I share lessons that have helped guide me toward maturity and wholeness in the midst of the battlelessons that I believe are crucial for all of us.

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