Please help - Valedictorian Speech

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Dear CAF,
I'm so sorry for bothering everyone, but I was wondering if you guys will please give me some advice regarding a speech that I have to give during graduation. God has humbled me and given me the honor of being valedictorian of my high school class, and I have to give a speech at graduation. The subject of the speech is inspiration, and my school is a public secular school, so I can't overtly mention religion or God, but I would like to somehow, in a subtle way, include a **prolife **message within my speech. But How? can someone please help me?
 
pray to the Holy Spirit before you write and practice your speech
congratulations, he will tell you what to say and he can speak through you. Keep it subtle, part of expressing an overall view of the world and the graduates’ place in it, don’t hit people over the head with it or make it sound like exploiting a public forum to push an agenda.
 
okay, so you guys, i have it written, can you tell me what you think please and help me out? do you think it is TOO OVERTLY pro life? (remember, this is a public, secular school)

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In December of 1960, a young girl named Anna was pregnant, and from the beginning the odds were against her unborn child. The father of her child abandoned the family and died in a car accident, leaving Anna as a single mother to raise this black unborn child in a time of poverty and racism. But despite the hardships that this mother faced, Anna made a singular decision that would change the face of America: she chose to keep her unborn child; she chose life over death. And this unborn child grew up to become the first African American president of America: President Barack Obama. This is the ultimate story of inspiration because where there is life, there is hope. Inspiration is not found within 2 minute graduation speeches. True inspiration is found within the daily struggle of moms and dads to bravely sacrifice for their children, for all of us. When a mother pelican bird cannot find food for her baby birds, she will pluck flesh and blood from her very own body in order to feed her young. This is the perfect picture of our own parents’ love for us that is substantiated by self-sacrifice. As we go through life’s difficulties and fall down and make mistakes, we know that we can find forgiveness and acceptance in the arms of our moms and dads. Their unconditional love testifies to the fact that each of us is unique, special, and unrepeatable individuals. As we Lobos leave high school to enter college, let us find inspiration within the love of our parents because their love reminds us to respect life and the intrinsic dignity and sanctity of every human life from the moment of conception to natural death. Congratulations class of 2010, we made it!
 
I think this is fabulous!! Truly inspirational and no, not overtly prolife, but still conveys the prolife message in a very profound way. Your parents must be very proud of you on so many levels. Good luck and God bless your graduation!

Kathy
 
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