Sunday, April 21, 2013

PaD: Fire

Today's word is fire.  I did not encounter any fires today.  Thank goodness.  I do have a fire in my belly and it is not acid reflux.  Today was Prayers for Paisley Day at my church.  Paisley is the 9 year old daughter of a friend of mine.  Paisley is very sick and there is no treatment for the disease she has.  That is an unheard of situation with our modern medicine.  Surely there is something they can do.  It turns out her problem is so rare that no one is really even working on it.  There is nothing modern medicine can do so our prayers even more important.
There are a lot of causes in this world to care about.  Many of them may affect a larger number of people than one 9-year old girl but to this one family it means everything.



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