The Red Envelope Project

My family will be participating in The Red Envelope Project as part of our Lenten observance (in an effort to promote social justice) this season.

We are a pro-life family and want to send a message to the President expressing our position on the abortion issue. The idea is simple (see below). My husband and I will definitely each send an envelope, and we're thinking of sending a red envelope for each of the 40 days of Lent.

If you're like-minded, please consider participating as well.

(1) Address a red envelope to the President:

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington , D.C. 20500


(2) Write this message on the back of the envelope:

This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life was unable to offer anything to the world. Responsibility begins with conception.

(3) Put a stamp on the empty red envelope, put the envelope in the mail, and let The Red Envelope Project know how many envelopes you sent (just click on the link).

My Dream

Today, as America's first African-American President is about to be inaugurated, my heart is full of sadness that our nation's next leader supports abortion.

We're a pro-life family, and right now I am 17 weeks and 3 days pregnant with our second child. I wonder if my baby is a boy or a girl, and I hope to find out a week from today. I wonder who he or she will be. I wonder what hopes and dreams he or she will bring into this world. I wonder, and I weep for all the babies who have been or will be killed through abortion.

I read about a pro-life ad that will air in Chicago during Black Entertainment Television's inauguration coverage. The ad is called "Life: Imagine the Potential," and it "depicts an unborn child who grows up to become President-elect Barack Obama." (You can watch the ad here.)

The article I read also mentioned "a planned protest" where "[p]rotesters plan to hold three large banners stating “President Obama social justice and human rights begin in the womb" and "53,000,000 children have died through abortion...President Obama stop the violence.”

But it's the quote on the third banner that really moved me to write this blog. The third banner bears Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." That just about says it all...

Dr. King had a dream, and so do I. My dream is for an end to abortion.

Cavemama off to pray for an end to abortion and that our new President will have a change of heart regarding the lives of the unborn.

May justice prevail over the culture of death, and may God bless America!