LIFE AND TERRI SCHIAVO

The Christian Science Monitor

Some issues stir people profoundly. The agonizing conflict over Terri Schiavo's life, and her passing yesterday, have moved many of us to think long and hard about our own lives, the lives of those we love, and what constitutes life.

Yet it can be hard to think clearly amid the distractions of so many conflicting opinions, no matter how heartfelt. So we hope readers will take this occasion to listen, think, and pray from a perspective that may be new to many. Perhaps, from this perspective, moms and dads, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, wives and husbands will gather and talk openly with each other.

We hope that mere human opinion gives way to conversations and listening to God—that understandably passionate concerns give way, if even for a moment, to the light of compassion and brotherly love, and that grief and doubt be touched by real comfort. Because isn't it true that few of us are untouched by this heart-wrenching experience?

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