St. Paul's Conversion and Ours

Today ends the Week of Prayer for Church Unity, significantly on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.  To arrive at the unity of all Christians (ut unum sint...that they may all be one--(Jn 17:21) is a process that has taken and will take a long time to come to full fruition, as did the conversion of St. Paul. His dramatic confrontation by Jesus on the road to Damascus, was only the beginning the the journey in his 180 degree turn-around.  He was blind for several days, healed, and baptized, but spent several years praying and reflecting on the event before he began his preaching.  We often forget that there were no Scriptures, as such, as yet written at this early stage of the Church, so Paul had to take the "sayings of Jesus" and the witness of the living community to help him understand the message of Jesus, the message of salvation, which he then went on to preach with great passion.
Recently, the 41st March for Life took place in Washington, DC, and another step toward a pro-life society was taken.  Young people, some of whom didn't really understand what abortion meant, were enlightened and became determined to do what they could to enlighten others.  From the first march  which 35,000 people attended has grown in magnitude to hundreds of thousands (before the snow prevented some from attending, there were 600,000 expected).  Middle school ages to octogenarians marched in the bitter cold to demonstrate their belief in the sanctity of life.  In time these numbers will grow; already polls show a shift in support from abortion to pro-life.
As with our own on-going conversion, there can be no estimated time of completion, no deadline.  It's a process that accompanies us to our passage to heaven.
Bro. Rene