austraLasia
1502
"DB, I LUV YA COZ
UR BAD"
(This is an entry in 'towards #1500'. It
is the second entry touching on the HIV issue)
THA: 24th March
2006 -- Yes, a province, not a place. The writer was offering a
personal experience and asked not to be identified or identifiable. The
headline shouldn't give too much of a problem to our SMS-soaked cultures, but it
might be worth reading on just to get it right!
"I had
just finished a Good Morning talk to the 500 plus student body yesterday.
The topic was 'how to live a life of quality'. A few minutes later I was
asked by a staff member to accompany her on a visit to a family, beneficiaries
of our 'Project Support HIV Orphans'. The mother and the four children are
all HIV +. The second child had just died, but not because of HIV, but
from a high fever. She was just 8 years of age. She had died in the
hospital less than 24 hours previously but they had brought her to the small
bamboo hut surrounded by poor praying villagers showing respect but murmuring
about why she should die, she was such a good girl.
But
before I left the scene, the mother told me: 'Searching for Don Bosco (the
project, the help) I discovered one truth. I discovered compassion.
In the search for compassion, I discovered Don Bosco', and crying she kept
repeating, 'DB, I luv ya coz you are Blessed And Divine'. Yes, for these
non-Christians Don Bosco is certainly Blessed And Divine, because he lived a
quality life. And what about us Salesians? Is DB truly
B.A.D.?"
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