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IT'S CURIOUS, RIGHT?

Sometimes we must put everything in proper perspective

It is a typical Friday afternoon and you are driving home. You tune in the radio. The newscast tells a story of little importance: In a distant town, 3 people have died of a flu that had never been seen before. You don't pay much attention to that event... On Monday when you wake up, you hear that not 3, but 30,000 people have died in the remote hills of India.
People from United States disease control have gone to investigate. Tuesday is already the most important news on the front page of the newspaper, because it is not only India, but Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan and soon the news is on all the news. They are calling it 'The Mysterious Influence' and everyone is wondering: How are we going to control it? Then a piece of news surprises everyone: Europe closes its borders, there will be no flights to France from India, nor from any other country where the disease has been seen.

Because of the closure of borders, you are watching the news when you hear the translation of a woman, in France, who says that there is a man in the hospital dying of the 'Mysterious Influence'. There is panic in Europe. The information says that when you have the virus, it is for a week and you don't even realize it. Then you have 4 days of horrible symptoms and then you die. England also closes its borders, but it is late, another day passes and the president of the United States, George Bush, closes the borders to Europe and Asia, to avoid contagion in the country, until they find a cure... Al The next day people gather in churches to pray for a cure and someone comes in saying: Turn on the radio and the news is heard: 2 women have died in New York.

Within hours, it seems that the disease invades the whole world. Scientists keep working to find the antidote, but nothing works. And suddenly, the expected news comes: the DNA code of the virus has been deciphered. The antidote can be done. The blood of someone who has not been infected is going to be required and in fact throughout the country the word is spreading that everyone go to the nearest hospital for a blood test. Are you volunteering with your family, together with some neighbors, wondering what will happen? Is this the end of the world?...Suddenly the doctor comes out shouting a name that he has read in the register. The youngest of your children is next to you, he grabs your jacket and says: Daddy, that's my name! Before you can react they are taking your son away and you shout: Wait!... And they answer: everything is fine, his blood is clean, his blood is pure. We think he has the correct blood type.

After 5 long minutes the doctors come out crying and laughing. It's the first time you've seen someone laugh in a week. The oldest doctor approaches you and says: Thank you, sir! Your son's blood is perfect, it is clean and pure, the antidote against this disease can be made... The news spreads everywhere, people he is praying and crying with happiness.

In that the doctor approaches you and your wife and says: Can we talk for a moment? It is that we did not know that the donor would be a child and we need you to sign this form to give us permission to use his blood. When you are reading the document you realize that they do not put the amount they will need and you ask: How much blood?... The doctor's smile disappears and he answers: We didn't think he would be a boy. We were not prepared. We need it all!... You can't believe it and you try to answer: 'But, but...'. The doctor keeps insisting, 'you don't understand, we are talking about the cure for the whole world. Please sign, we need it...all of it. Your question: but can't they give him a transfusion? And the answer comes: 'if we had pure blood we could...' Will he sign? .Please?... Sign!!...Silently and unable to feel the same fingers that hold the pen in hand, you sign. They ask you 'Do you want to see your son? You walk towards that emergency room where your son is sitting on the bed saying: Daddy!, Mommy!, what's wrong?

You take his hand and say: Son, your mommy and I love you and we would never let anything happen to you that wasn't necessary, do you understand that? And when the doctor comes back and says: I'm sorry we need to start, people all over the world are dying... Can you go? Can you turn your back on your son and leave him there?... While he says to you: Daddy? Mommy? Why are you abandoning me? The following week, when they have a ceremony to honor your son, some people fall asleep at home, others don't come because they prefer to go for a walk or watch a football game and others come to the ceremony with a fake smile pretending to they care.

Would you like to stand up and shout: My son died for you!!!! Don't you care?... Maybe that's what God wants to tell us: 'My son died for you, do you still not know how much I love you? It's funny how easy it is for people to dismiss God and then wonder why the world is going from bad to worse. It is curious to see how we believe everything we read in the newspaper, but we question what the Bible says. It is curious how we strive day after day treasuring earthly goods and we do not dedicate a few minutes to treasuring heavenly goods. It's funny how someone says: 'I believe in God', but with his actions he shows that he follows others.

It's funny how we send thousands of 'jokes' through email...they spread like wildfire, but when you send messages that have to do with God, people think before sharing them with others. It's funny how crude, vulgar and obscene lust passes freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in schools and workplaces. IT'S CURIOUS, RIGHT? It is more curious to see how a person can be such a fervent Christian on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week.

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