i remember being told in the 80's that by the year 2000, the average person would know 5 people personally, who had contracted the hiv virus. i don't know of anyone in my personal life who's been diagnosed as having the hiv virus, but i know plenty who have been diagnosed w/cancer of some sort:
damian-leukemia
chiyon-stomach
gina-breast
dean-brain
franklin-brain
katie's mom-lung
julie's mom-some sort
our bodies are mutating. the fallen nature of all of creation and our blatant abuse of it is taking its toll. hiv is somewhat preventable, according to lifestyle (exceptions being blood transfusions, etc). but cancer is unpredictable, indiscriminate, unstoppable.
or at least it appears so.
i'm sure it IS predictable, IS stoppable. to God. by God.
it's only by His revelation that other discoveries were made. will He reveal this mystery as well? and if so, when? or maybe, to whom? or is it, who will search for what seems unsearchable, reach for what seems unreachable? but aren't there scores of people doing just that?
i wonder who the first cancer patient was...and if there'll ever be a last cancer fatality...
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