Look to the Cross

By Angela Eicher, Co-Proponent of the Colorado Life Initiative

Defending life is not easy. We have to stand before councils, stay up late writing and

planning, spend our free time organizing and contacting others, leave our families to go

to the public square to beg for signatures, endure ridicule from those who disagree, make ourselves vulnerable to others, carry petitions everywhere walking around at every

event we attend seeking signatures, while we would rather be sitting and enjoying

events with everyone else.

The price of life is not easy, but when we look to Jesus we see how very little is asked of

us. We stand before councils; he stood before angry mobs. We stay up late typing; he

stayed up late in agony praying fervently and sweating. We endure mild taunts while he endured betrayal, beating, excessive scourging, spitting, and a crown of thorns. We

carry petitions while he carried the weight of all our sins in His cross. Our hands and

feet get tired running around getting signatures; His hands and feet were nailed to the

cross. We make ourselves vulnerable by reaching out to others with the truth they often

do not want to hear or are too busy to bother; He made Himself vulnerable to everyone

by emptying Himself completely for us by dying on the cross.

Our cross is heavy for us, I agree, but we can find our strength in Jesus who goes before us, beside us, and behind us. Our fatigue, suffering, and shame is but a fragment of His,

and He will carry even that for us if we put our trust in Him and let Him. So, when I am

nervous, embarrassed, tired, or afraid, I do look to the Cross. Jesus understands. He

shows us the way through it. I am a follower of Christ. I know that by following Him to

the Cross I too will follow Him to the Resurrection.

A Blessed Holy Week to all!!

Angela is a devout Catholic, seminary graduate, and teaches Catechism to youth at her church. She is a wife, mother, and Doctor of Physical Therapy who enjoys camping and spending time with her family. She helped with Prop 115, leads an annual community Walk for Life showcasing the many resources in the community, and is entering her third election cycle as a Co-Proponent of a Biblical law to save the lives of children in Colorado.