WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 11/5/08

November 5, 2008 on 11:54 am | By | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments
Vacationing in Darfur

 
Mom always said that my brother Lou  had a few screws loose.  (She said it about me, too, but she was only kidding with me.)  Irascible,  ornery and fiercely independent, with a Sean Connery style about him, Lou has two black belts in karate but abhors violence, an odd love-hate fondness for running marathons (with a 61 year-old body that screams with rheumatism), and a gift of healing that has earned him recognition as something of a legend among his peers throughout the country.  He is impatient with God, gentle with the sick, and painfully blunt with the rest of the world.
 
He is also driven to do volunteer work in some of the deepest, darkest, nastiest hellholes on earth.  (Several years ago, on a medical mission to Afghanistan, he got lost in downtown Kabul, roamed half the night through what was then a terrorist zone, and ended up settling down with a group of Pakistani soldiers behind sandbags while waiting for the American Embassy to open.)  
 
My point?  No, a special request:  My brother leaves on Saturday for Darfur in Sudan.  Charitable groups call him now, because of his experience.  So, my request isn’t for money, but for your prayers — lots of them — that he may travel safely and do much good to relieve the suffering of those in that shattered country.  Yes, Lou has a few screws loose, but if everybody had similar oddities, the world would be a much better place.  God bless, and thank you. — jri
 
“Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint;
    O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony.”
        –    King David
               (Psalm 6:2)

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