Mark Pickup
About Me
I have been married to wife LaRee for 35 years. We have two children and five grandchildren.
Interests
- I am disabled (triplegic)with advanced multiple sclerosis. As my disability increases
- I have become interested in discovering Christian meaning in suffering. My priorities are faith
- family and sanctity of human life. I will dedicate whatever energies I have left to these things. I am now convinced that if a society does not embrace the sanctity
- dignity and equality of all human life (and North American society does not) then any barbarity is possible. A truly civilized society includes in its tender embrace every human life. This includes every child developing in the womb
- those people with mental or physical disabilities
- those with terminal conditions
- derelicts
- the old
- and people who are not wanted or even loved by anyone. Impossible you say? Perhaps
- but I'm a sucker for hopeless causes. Perhaps it comes from having what many consider a hopeless disease. Love is what defines enlightened and civilized society. But love needs the divine. The brotherhood of man needs the Fatherhood of God. Love without God becomes selective
- coersive and arbitrary -- turning lives of the weakest into hell on earth. It was because of this hard-won understanding that I founded of the Christian disability organization
- HumanLifeMatters (see www.HumanLifeMatters.ca Yes
- I am convinced that human enlightenment is impossible without God. Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the greatest imperative of the 21st Century.
Favorite Music
- Henry Purcell's "Dido's Lament"
- Ennio Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe"
- Kermit the Frog's "The Rainbow Connection"
Favorite Books
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