That Mask You Wear || Poetry Wednesday {National Suicide Prevention Week}

That mask you wear
Cleverly crafted
To cover your pain
Muffle your screams

That mask you wear
Does it ever come off?
Maybe
Sometimes
But not often

That mask you wear
It keeps the pain out
For a bit
But it always returns

That mask you wear
You make sure that
No one is around
When you take it off

That mask you wear
You take it off at night
Cry into your pillow
Wonder if anyone would notice
If you were gone

That mask you wear
You silently watch people from behind it
Gauging how much they would cry
If you were gone

That mask you wear
You're determined to take it off
Once more
Before you sleep forever

But please don't

We want to see you
See your smile
See your eyes
Hear your laugh
Witness your vibrant passion for life

Don't let
That mask you wear
Mask your true beauty
We love you
Even without it

This whole week is National Suicide Prevention Week. While I have been fortunate and have never had someone close to me commit suicide, not all are so lucky. Please spread awareness about this and just let people know that you are there for them. Most of the time we don't know the world of good we do by simply reaching out and sending a quick "hey! I was thinking of you the other day. how have you been?"

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please call this hotline (available 24 hours a day):

1-800-273-8255

Yep I'm Alive...... //Telling y'all about the only thing I've done worth mentioning\\

Well......

I disappeared off the face of the earth for a bit.....

I suppose an apology is due right about now?

But yeah, school got really hectic since it was the end of the semester and guess who completely lost her mind for a week?

Me?

Why would you guess that?

But tis true.

Anyways, HOPEFULLY I'll get back on top of blogging but we shall see.

I haven't been doing much except for the usual school, violin, and dance, BUT, I DID DO SOMETHING SUPER EXCITING LAST MONTH THAT I GUESS I'LL TELL YOU TO GIVE SUBSTANCE TO THIS POST

I went.....

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TO THE MARCH FOR LIFEE

IT WAS SO AMAZING AND I MET SO MANY AMAZING FRIENDS THERE

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I'm just gonna go through my visit day by day (ish) XD

Wednesday {January 16th}

I flew out from a local airport at around 7:30 to Charlotte. There my gate was on the OTHER SIDE of the airport from the gate where I landed -_- so just picture me walking across that airport with Starbucks and Burger King in hand. From Charlotte, I flew to Harrisburg where my best friend picked me up and we went to her house.

Thursday {January 17th}

We drove to DC! When we got to the hotel (which was named "The MODG Hotel" by us crazy modgers), we freaked out every time we saw someone we know. Guys, this part was AMAZING. I'd only met two of my amazing modg friends, but here I met SOOOOOO many more and let's just say that there was a lot of hugging and screaming. Then we went and got ready for the MODG Prom! The dance was also AMAZING! It's hard to explain how great it was! The table I sat at was the "RAAC" table and I was told that we were the loudest table.......We were laughing a lot xD. After the dance, we went back to the hotel and the after party commenced.

this is a picture of the whole dance! 

MoDG class of 2020!

Pope Leo XIII NHS Chapter!

The RAAC <33

the after party xDDD

Friday {January 18th}

After breakfast, we talked with peoples for a while before heading over to where the rally was. Oh my goodness, the rally itself was an amazing experience! If you didn't see it, I would really recommend that you go and watch it! We were standing with the MODG group, and we had hats that had our school colors and we also had a banner. After the rally, we stood in the street for about an hour while waiting for the March to start. While that could have been totally boring it was not because I was with my amazing friends (it's hard to describe them with any word that is not amazing). When the March started, we were in a "train" and that was so so so great xD. Marching in the March was an experience that I will never forget. To see so many people marching for those who cannot march was amazing! It was so peaceful and the people were great! Unfortunately, we did march at one point next to these "pro-lifers" who were awful! They were pro-life, but they were not peaceful. They were extremely anti-Catholic and kept telling us that we were going to hell. Their signs said that the abortion doctors were also going to hell (which they might if they don't repent). But it was interesting because marching right behind us was a seminary and their banner was about God's mercy, and you could really see the difference between us peaceful marchers and those other ones. But yes, I did do the whole March and after that, we went back to the hotel and hung out till 1 in the morning :P We were low-key stalking each other as we had a "photo battle" which was basically get the randomest pictures of people xD

the MoDG group!

another one! 

me and my fwends <3333

THE TRAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Saturday {January 19th}

We went back to my friend's house on this day. I cried so much saying goodbye to various people. I've never cried so much in public and I'M TEARING UP JUST THINKING ABOUT IT GAH

The rest of the days were spent at my lovely friend's house and those days were so much fun! We chatted so much with our peoples that we had left and it was amazing! I went back home on Tuesday the 22nd, and cried in front of my whole gate #noshame

Anyways, that was my March 4 Life experience. I will hopefully be more active and organized from now on, but no promises xD (and just know that I started out with 200 pictures on my camera roll when I went to DC and came home with over 600......sh.......)

~ Ceci

Why We March: Lindsay

Lindsay is a junior with Mother of Divine Grace.

The moment a woman conceives a child in her womb, that child is alive. He/she is a human being that God has created to serve a purpose in life. Due to abortion, that child will never know what that purpose was. The children that these people are killing could have been saints. They could have been AMAZING people that were going to change the world, but their mothers decided that they don't get to even see light. That is cruel, heartless, and terrible beyond explanation. We are simple humans, and we barely know anything, but some of us apparently think we can choose when a child's life is going to end. This is wrong. It is SO wrong. No one but God has the ability to take someone from this world. I learned that children who are unborn or die close to birth and haven't had the chance to be baptized don't even go to heaven, but go somewhere on the edge of it called Limbo. These children don't even get to see God after this terrible thing happens. The poor children! Abortion is a violent action that cannot be justified. People say babies aren't people until they're born. What makes them any less human than the rest of us? They grow and form, just like we do, so that they can come into the world and serve their purpose. They are not there for you to decide whether they get to live a life or not. Abortion is such a horrible choice to make in life and we need to fight against the people that think it's okay. I march to stomp their evil thoughts into nothing. Life is precious and we need to treat it as such.

Why We March: Rebecca

Rebecca is a senior with Mother of Divine Grace.

 But, I march to save our future generation and to protect those innocent lives shattered by abortion. I march to not only save the helpless babies but the mothers as well, because a lot of them undergo depression, heartache and emotional and physical pain after the horrors of abortion. Another reason why I march is to show the world that all life is precious from the moment of conception to natural death.

As J.R.R. Tolkien says, "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

Why We March: Joy

Joy is a sophomore with Mother of Divine Grace.

I am pro-life for two reasons. One, abortion itself in general is wrong. Two, I can personally relate because I'm adopted.
Abortion is wrong on so many levels. The person who has an abortion is pretty much murdering their child whether they know it or not. You would be lying if you denied that there is an actual human being in the mother's womb and if you believe in the lie that it is only a blob of tissue, then let me ask this question. How does this so called, “blob of tissue” transform into a baby when it is born? How does it receive the gift of life?
I was born in China during the time that the government restricted the amount of children a family could have. Several days after I was born, I was found on the steps of an orphanage. My parents most likely left me because they didn't have enough money to care for me and if they did happen to have another child, having me would've been breaking the law. Breaking this law of having more than one child has serious consequences so my birth mom risked a lot just to be pregnant with me and give birth. I cannot express how grateful I am to my birth parents for choosing life. I have a loving family and some of the most amazing friends who I just love with all of my heart.

These are my reasons for being pro-life and I'm proud of it.

Why We March: Eric

Eric is a senior with Mother of Divine Grace.

I march for the poor MURDERED human beings who cannot defend their lives, but are preyed upon without any say in the matter. Precautions, especially in our day and age, can be taken to not have children, and if you are going to slaughter your innocent child then you should take them. If someone shoots another person, people react in horror and shock, demanding justice to be done to this person, this killer. Murder carries a heavy sentence. Life in prison. The rest of your life to be spent in custody in a penitentiary. This is dealt out many times a year (about 15 thousand times in the U.S.). But how many more times more are children aborted? 652,639!!! And since 1970, there are more than 44,498,750 babies killed. FORTY FOUR MILLION. FORTY FOUR MILLION. I repeated that, because the amount of people that that is is staggering to the mind. Simply count to 44. See how long this takes you, counting one every 24 to 48 HOURS, seeing that that is how long the killing of a baby takes. Then multiply that. One million times. THAT is why I march. To PROTECT humanity from this BRUTALITY AND MURDER. These selfish, stupid, misled, evil, heartless people must be stopped. They just must. 

Why We March: Emilia

I asked some of the people in my school to tell us why they march, and this one comes from Emilia who's a junior with Mother of Divine Grace

'I march because everyone deserves a chance.  I once wrote a song when I was much younger; here are some of the lyrics.

“He could have had a chance

He could’ve made a change

But you cut him off

Before he could even try”

This song is dedicated to all children who have been aborted, past, present, and future.

 So many of these children could’ve been doctors who cured cancer, or missionaries who traveled and brought Jesus to people who had never heard His name.  They could’ve been fathers, mothers, priests, presidents…they could’ve been so many beautiful, honorable things.  But they weren’t given the opportunity.  Because they were 'inconvenient'.  Because they were unwanted.

I march for these babies who don’t have a voice.  I march so that all of them, planned or unplanned, can live and die according to God’s hand.  Not a doctor’s. 

 I march for the future, a future that loves life and embraces it at every stage.  I march for love, and I march for life.