I’d like to introduce you to one of my newer friends, Vicki Thorn, a wife, mother of six, and grandmother to six more. When I moved to Milwaukee in 1984, I was busy adapting to my newlywed life in a new city with a new job that paid a lot less than promised due to my employer’s financial troubles. It all seemed very important.
I didn’t know it then, but just a couple miles away, Vicki was starting up something that truly IS important: Project Rachel, a Catholic ministry that seeks to provide healing to people in the aftermath of abortion. Since that time, Project Rachel has helped thousands of people around the world, and Vicki’s traveled to 24 countries to receive all sorts of awards and honors, though you wouldn’t know that from talking with her.
While it wasn’t in God’s plan for Vicki and me to meet back in 1984, He chose through a most delightful coincidence
to bring us together virtually last fall. We met in person in Milwaukee in March. It was a privilege to spend several hours with Vicki. Her strong faith in the Lord and in Catholicism’s teaching radiate in her smile, her tone in conversation, and the way she listens. I learn from her. Vicki’s planning a pilgrimage to Rome next year to see the sites of the women saints, and I’m eagerly awaiting more details (and hope to see some of you there as well). Who reflects Christ to you?
