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WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 2/13/08

I love reprobates, people whose goodness isn’t emblazoned on their sleeves (and very often they themselves do not recognize how stubbornly it is tattooed on their hearts). 
 
My big brother Lou is a gruff, tough, highly irreverent physician’s assistant, with a healing gift that you wouldn’t believe.  (He once had the label “PA of the Year” slapped on him by both the state of Maine and the national PA organization.)  Though highly disdainful of pious folks, he is deeply spiritual in his own way, and spends pretty much all of his free time in dangerous, diseased, suffering places, from Mongolia to Afghanistan, all for no pay…and sometimes even paying his own way.  (He is currently in Kenya, working in the refugee camps.)
 
My point?  Besides bragging about my big bro, I guess it is rather funny how God picks those to serve Him and care for his flock.   Please keep Lou, a most unlikely disciple, in your prayers.  And rejoice in God’s blessings. — jri
 
“Know that I am with you and will keep
you wherever you go.”
    –    God
           (Genesis 28:15)