They say that you should never meet your heroes. There's some wisdom to this but really it depends on what kind of people your heroes are. Short post this week, I just want to geek out about an awesome experience I had. I alluded to this last week but another reason I chose to do a pro-life post was because the next day, July 27, I was to attend the Coalition for Life St. Louis' annual benefit dinner. Coalition for Life is a great organization in and of itself, but for me the highlight of the evening was the keynote speaker, my personal hero (and, God-willing, the future Mrs. Nicodemus...Crap! Did I just type that out loud?), Lila Rose.
For those of you who don't know, Lila Rose is the president and founder of Live Action, the pro-life organization she started when she was fifteen. Live Action is a new media nonprofit dedicated to ending abortion and building a culture of life and is best known for doing undercover video stings inside the abortion industry, catching Planned Parenthood and others in unethical and illegal activity and exposing their dirtiest laundry to the light of day. Now, Lila Rose was not behind this latest batch of videos, that honor belongs to the Center for Medical Progress, but still, she pioneered this style of undercover pro-life detective work. As one writer wrote a few years ago (I'd link to the article, but I can't find it), "she like Batman, but with better hair." So basically, she's like Asami from The Legend of Korra.
So, naturally, when Coalition for Life announced that she would be the featured speaker at their annual benefit dinner, I knew I had to be there. Just a couple weeks after I had reserved my seat, I learned about the VIP tickets to the reception before the dinner where I could actually meet her. It took until the very last week and hours of hard work, but I managed to earn and save enough for the minimum donation.
So, yeah, I met Lila Rose last week. And it. Was. Awesome! She was genuinely sweet and friendly. I got to tell her she was my hero, that she was alway in my prayers, and even got my picture taken with her. As if it wasn't amazing enough just talking to her, the benefit happened to fall on her 27th birthday. Not only did I get to meet my hero, I got to wish her a Happy Golden Birthday in person.
So, yeah, probably not coming down from this high for a while. Have an awesome week! (But it won't be as awesome as the one I just had!)
For more information on Lila Rose and Live Action, go here: http://liveaction.org/lilarose/
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