It’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and your part of it. I got something in my email a few years ago that I saved, because it said so much to me, I may have shared it with you before, but I want to share it again with you. It’s perfect for this time, because it reveals to us just how easy it is to love, just how easy it is to be an individual savior in a world that’s begging to be saved, person by person, moment by moment. It’s another case where adults can learn from children.
This is a story that comes to us from a woman who, many years ago, worked as a volunteer in a hospital. She got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease.
Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her parents, and parents explained it to her little brother. Then they asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. The boy hesitated for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do it if it will save her.”
When the time came, and as the transfusion progressed, the little boy lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as everyone did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks.
Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”
You see, being young, the little boy had misunderstood; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her.
What we’re talking about here is love. Plain and simple, short and sweet. We’re talking about love—the Life Blood of the Soul.
Love can be given to others in a thousand ways. Through words and actions and even thoughts of love can be a transfusion.
And this is how it begins. Through simple acts and thoughts of love. I promise you. The love for another that you ignite in your heart is ignited in the heart of the other. The light may be dim at first, but it will never go out. It cannot, as long as you keep placing it there.
Let’s give it to each other, and to all people everywhere. Then, we will be saviors and then we can bring, truly bring, Joy to the World.
Have a holly, jolly week.
