EDITOR:

How did the term “politically correct” get started? How awful a phrase. The ugliness that shrouds politics and the thirst for power that is attached to politics cannot be defined as anything good. You could even argue that politics has become an ever-growing evil.

Mothers Day was recently celebrated. You would get no argument from most people that Mothers Day could be celebrated every day. Is their anything in all of creation so wonderful as a mother? I would argue there is nothing in the world that can compare to the love a mother has for their children.

Webster’s definition of Nonsense: 1) The spoken or written words that make no sense. 2) Foolish or unacceptable behavior.

With this definition, do you think whoever started the nonsense of renaming a m other to a ‘birthing person’ should be given a voice, or do you, like me, wish the media would grow a spine and call it out for what it really is…not political correctness, but rather foolish and unacceptable behavior, total nonsense.

We have been created with two needs, to love and be loved. We were created to seek these two things. You cannot shut this desire off, as though we could find a switch and just stop the pursuit.

For confirmation of this fact, look into the eyes of a mother who has lost a child. Make no mistake, the hurt, the grief, the loss is evident, almost palpable. However, there is an even more evident reflection in these same eyes. Because the eye is the window to the soul, you can actually see what love looks like. These eyes seem to define the undefinable. Look into a mother’s eyes and you do not need a dictionary to understand love. A mothers eyes are totally understandable and no words need to be spoken, as there is no love like a mother’s love. Mothers somehow have the ability to be the “glue” that can make everything ok. They are the one constant in a child’s life, always there. Every child knows there is nobody like Mom. Mom has a God-given connection, an unbreakable bond, which enables a child to always know, “If I have nobody else, I have Mom and Mom is enough.”

Losing a child to physical death is one thing, however, losing a child to spiritual death is not unlike losing a child physically. Both are a crisis of the heart. We’ll call spiritual death a crisis of faith, as the same look is seen in a Mother’s eyes. Hurt, anguish, palpable concern, what can I do, do anything, tell me what more I can do, I pray all the time, tell me there is hope, better still tell me he/she will be ok…all being said without one word being spoken.

Birthing person? Pure evil. The irony here is our country is dying spiritually and it will be prayer, like a mother for her child, that will rescue our nation’s soul…delivering us from evil.

Mike Cousineau

Escanaba