Yesterday afternoon I came home from school and discovered
that my electricity was out again, my cell phone battery had just died, and my
laptop battery was about to die so I had no way to contact anyone about the
problem. The frozen food I had just
purchased from Costco would have no place to go, and that’s about $30 in the
trash. Reverting to my selfish
perspective, I started to get upset and ask, “Why does this keep happening to
me?” This little upset in my schedule of
surfing the web, charging electronics, and enjoying lights brought my world to
a grinding halt.
Meanwhile half a world away a little girl’s treatment for
HIV stopped being effective and she is really sick--she
may need to start quinine but that is a last resort. Another woman is sick with typhoid and an
intestinal infection. A boy is healing
from third degree burns on his arm from helping carry a hot meal for others.
Going without electricity for a day seems to pale in
comparison to these larger problems. Oh,
that I could get past my own selfish needs to see the needs of others!
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