Love
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.
I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House……
Sherry Tyree, 66, a graduate of John Burroughs School and Washington University, is a founding member (1984) and Vice President of Women for Faith & Family, a national Catholic women's organization that supports and defends traditional church teachings. Sherry is married to Dr. Donald A. Tyree, professor emeritus, School of Business, St. Louis University. 
Lovely passage….until we get to Blah, blah, blah, elected, blah, blah, White House. More politics and zero religion; again.
I didn’t watch Palin’s speech, mostly because I don’t watch conventions or political speeches in general.
As for her special-needs child, it is good that she isn’t afraid to talk about it, but I hope she doesn’t go overboard and make it an obvious vote-getting tool either.
I wonder if she’d make it a legal priority to make sure that every mother of a special needs child can take her child to work like she did and does?
Naw, that would be too much of a Liberal, socialist idea.
Fr. Jonathan Morris, advisor to Mel Gibson for “The Passion of the Christ” film and author of “The Promise” has some apropos things to say about the Palin family. He gets flack too. See the following blog:
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/04/frj_0904/#more-837
From the beginning I said that the good thing that could come from Palin’s candidacy is that it would bring much needed attention to special education.
Now, I also think it might bring about real public discourse on abstinence-only education in our schools and its successes or failures.
hs, kids don’t belong at work, special needs or not. That liberal idea is idiotic at best…
Tim, my point exactly. So is Sarah Palin a hero or not? SHE took her infant child to work in the Governor’s office and is a conservative poster child. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy. I would suggest that she’s essentially saying that what she did was her right and duty as a working mother. If that’s true, then why should SHE have the special privilege of doing it, when the vast majority of working women in the country wouldn’t have a chance of doing it.
It’s kind of like the flip side of the right-wing yammering at Bill and Hillary years ago when they sent Chelsea to a private school in Washington. The common statement at the time was, “why won’t Bill push a voucher program so everyone could do what he did?”
Why? When you are the boss you can do that. The owner of my company brings her kids in once in a great while. If I don’t like it, I can always go start my own company and make a rule that you can’t bring your kids to work.
It slays me that people somehow still believe in the fairytale that life is fair and everyone should be able to do everything that everyone else does. Just because Palin was able to do it and did it doesn’t mean squat for anyone else, sorry.
The criticism of the Clinton’s in that case was BS, I agree with you.
“Why? When you are the boss you can do that.”
No, the taxpayers of Alaska are “the boss”. IF she was truly a public servant, she would realize that. She is, more or less, a state employee–ableit an elected one. I would hope laws that don’t allow Jenny Accounting-Clerk to bring her child would also apply to her.
Tim,
Youre boss bring her children, but the employees are not allowed? That still spells HYPOCRISY, why can’t you admit that?