Remedy Mission
I’m going to be in Iraq in three days.
I’m not going because I’m trying to make a stand for some abstract cause. I’m not going because I see myself as a 21st century expatriate or a hippie or an IWU-approved world changer.
I’m going because little kids are sick and need heart surgeries. I’m going to help them, or help people help them.
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Preemptive Love has the opportunity to bring Remedy Missions, international pediatric heart surgery teams, to perform 30 heart surgeries in August. (That’s a lot of kids!) They will also train local Iraqi doctors and nurses, which means the children won’t have to fly to Turkey for surgeries anymore. (That’s loads cheaper!)
Please, please donate.
-Donate this week’s tithe, or this month’s tithe.
-Give up one Starbucks drink a week for the month. (We all know that adds up. …)
-Deposit all that change in your coin jar, then write a check.
-You know that money you were going to donate to me? – wink! – write the check to PLC instead.
-Like you really need to hit Higher Grounds on the way home from work.
-NECC congregation: I think this is in line with Tony’s AWAKEN. (Fast your money??)
-Tax return!
I bet you think I’m giving myself a break. (I wrote the blog. I posted stuff on Facebook and Twitter. I’m going to Iraq. … blah blah blah.) Well, I’m not letting myself off that easy. I’d be a hypocrite to tell you to donate, and then do nothing myself. So I will. Right after I post this, I’m going to follow the above link and donate.
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I have two nieces and three nephews, all ten years and under: Austin, Noah, Emily, Taylor and Aaron. I love them. I would do anything for them. I’d watch Thomas the Tank with Noah for hours. I’d let TayTay cry in my arms till Mommy comes home.
I love my nieces and nephews – but their parents love them more. And when they’re sick, their moms – my sisters – are scared and nervous and assume the worst.
There are moms in Iraq that feel the exact same way. They dote on their children. They worry about them when they’re sick.
But their kids don’t have runny noses; they have holes in their hearts.
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I’ve said this before: there aren’t a lot of things I’m sure about. I doubt a lot about my faith, and I don’t always know who I am, but I know that some things matter. Some things matter more than money and religiosity and comfort and patriotism and happiness.
Life is kind of important.
So is love.
-Ezek.
May 19, 2010