The vision for "stop the living holocaust" was started when I was thirteen years old but the hate of abortion began when I was only 6. It was a normal day and my mother, sister and I were in the car headed for school. As usual my mother had the radio on at our favorite station Z88.3, the Christian radio station. I was listening to the music and I heard the usual lyrics of songs the Z had played over and over for the past few years, but then a new song came up. The song was about a baby singing to her mother, telling her she forgives her and that she is in heaven with God. Naturally I didn't understand that this song was about abortion. I was young, and the whole concept of abortion wasn't something my mom wanted to talk with me about being about only six years old. So when I asked about the song she didn't tell me much, but I was persistent and kept pestering her until she finally told me everything about abortion. I was shocked, I was angry, and I knew it wasn't right. I asked her later if the president could stop it, and she said yes but he needs the support of the people. I said that we should send the song on the Z to everyone we knew and tell everyone how bad abortion is. It was later I realized there was nothing I could do....or was there?
Years passed and there were some rough points in my life, normal things kids start to feel growing up. I was depressed all the time and felt like the world was so horrible and there was nothing to do to stop it yada yada yada. This kept going on and then I became a teen. I thought I was somebody, someone who was now important. I was over a decade and was a teen, finally! However nothing changed...The world was the same, problems were the same, and people had low expectations for kids, there was nothing I could do. Those words were always in my head "nothing you can do. There's nothing you can do. NOTHING YOU CAN DO."
Isn't it amazing how the world feels so big? You look at a globe and you think wow, I'm not even a little speck. By this time in life it wasn't "what can I do to help?" it was "I can't do anything to help, I'm only one person".
I'll tell you what, its all lies.
The world's expectations for teens is so low people don't even think teens can clean their room by themselves. I don't know when exactly, but one day I got the idea to start a program that would raise money for pro life organizations. Pretty big dream, but at the same time not really. I came up with the name "the living holocaust" and when I turned fourteen I made a blog. If I would have dwelled in that atmosphere of "nothing I can do" I would have not even passed seventh grade. I read a book called "Do Hard Things" and it really inspired me. So today I have the same plan, the same dreams and I realize that with God nothing is impossible. It is actually really easy to become a non for profit organization and to raise money. I would have never dreamed of becoming an organization before. It just goes to show you that you can't go along with the world. If you go with the flow of the river it will be easier, but when the waterfall comes you will plummet down. There needs to be some people swimming against the flow. Some people who turn the world back towards safety. Some people who help the weak and defenseless. Some people who Stop The Living Holocaust....
