Good News Friday

 Here we are at the end of another work week, and J. B. Shurk has an upbeat article for us at the American Thinker entitled Faith and Determination Move Mountains.

Let me ask a simple question. Who is more powerful: a vast bureaucratic army of groupthink automatons all marching to the same beat and repeating the same rote lines, or a single iconoclast who refuses to submit to mass indoctrination? It is all too tempting to assume that a lone voice stands no chance against an imposing ideological force. How can one person fight back against overwhelming odds? Yet here is the interesting thing: the more uniform the consensus among conquered men, the more consequential a single dissenting voice becomes.

If you stand in a room with a hundred people all shouting different messages, you might hear only the person next to you. If ninety-nine people all say the exact same thing, you will certainly receive their message. But if one person on the other side of the room shouts something entirely different from everyone else, that message will also be heard clearly.

Small numbers have big voices. People who hear those voices ask themselves, "Why do these people not believe everything we've been instructed to believe? What makes them so certain that all of us are wrong, and they are right?" Like pebbles plunked into a pond, the ripples grow and crash into each other, share energy, build momentum, and eventually create big enough waves to reach the other shore. One rock at a time, one voice at a time, eventually, the water becomes downright choppy.

It has seemed at times that keeping the faith was a fools errand. And yet the Bible is full of examples. The Israelites waited 400 years to be rescued from bondage in Egypt. Indeed, how long did they wait for the Messiah? We only had to wait for 50 years. But of course, even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, that won't be the end. Despite what the Left is screeming about, all the end of Roe will do is put it back to the 50 states. The voters of each state can then set the restrictions as their consciences dictate.

Dismantling the enshrinement of abortion as a "constitutional right" will not end abortion, but it at least takes the first positive step toward recognizing that sacrificing one human for the convenience of another is antithetical to Americans' historic commitment to life and liberty. Fifty years of dissenting voices plunking pebbles into society's pond have had their effect.

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As we go through these turbulent times ahead, never forget how quickly the status quo can collapse. Great change often starts from unexpected places. Moral wrongs are righted. The powerless find inner power. The voiceless find their words. Sometimes faith and prayer and determination really do move mountains. And sometimes those mountains move much faster than most think possible.