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Company description::
This holiday season, families all over the world will be filled with hope and happiness--the hope that gifts given will be well appreciated and the happiness that their family is together. Hope and happiness, however, will not quite be the same for all families. It will be a much different hope and happiness for families whose fate has taken a turn for the worse. Instead, their hope is that this will not be their last Christmas together and their happiness is solely that they are together now, as they celebrate the birth of Christ with thanks and welcome the New Year with trepidation. Meet Richard Lopez and his family.
Richard Lopez has been given 3 months to live—and that was about 3 months ago! Richard, diagnosed with liver cancer, needs a transplant in order to survive. His insurance will cover 80% of the approximately $300,000 transplant, and will pay a portion of other related medical expenses--prescriptions, etc. That doesn’t leave a lot of hope for a working class tax payer, who has been unable to work for the past few months due to his illness. Prescription costs alone are unbearable! The bible says that money is the root of all evil, but it’s also true that the greatest evil we may ever know is to become oblivious to our own society, simply because we cannot afford the cost of living. Especially in the greatest nation on earth, without money, the world suddenly becomes a very cold and dark place. Thank God for the better days we have seen, for without money, we will surely never see days like that again.
All American tax payers like Richard whose money has been given to just about every nation on earth, know that while it’s true that money is at the root of all evil, money also helps people stay alive. It’s not money, but what we do with money, that determines whether it will be for good or for evil. There is no evil in giving money to a homeless family on the streets. There is no evil in helping the many nations we have helped. What we cannot understand is why such bad fate happens to such good people like Richard. Maybe the reason for such bad fate is so that the will of others may become so strong as to separate them from their own money. Maybe to separate oneself from one’s own money, so that another may have the opportunity to continue living, is the greatest good that can come from any human being. Perhaps that is our main challenge in this life, and perhaps that is why bad fate happens to good people—for they are proven capable of passing this test!—while the rest of us are still trying to pass it.
While our nation is hard at work helping out others around the globe with our hard-earned tax dollars, let us not forget the many here in our own land needing help. Let’s do something really good this holiday season; there are many people who could use our help. If you would like to find out more about Richard and help keep him alive, visit http://www.helpsaverichard.org, and make a contribution. As a society, we need to help those who are down. Not only because it’s a good thing to do but also because we’ll need them when we’re down. |
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