While scrolling through my Facebook feed I see comment after comment about how bored people are now that it is summer and school has been out for like, one week.
I can't help but think: "What? You are bored sitting at home with nothing to do?" I would trade my right arm to be you right now. Young, health, strong young person with so much potential, so much opportunity.
But I am stuck in a hospital bed. Wondering when I can go home. Tomorrow? Next week? All the while being pumped full of strange drugs that keep me up at night, make me sick, and drain away what little energy I have when I wake up from a fitful night's sleep. And you are bored.
Surely you could be doing something to better yourself or even help other people. Go join a health club and loose that twenty pounds you are always complaining about. Wish I was well enough to take a walk let alone work out when ever I wanted. Go donate your time at a food pantry and help feed those poor people you see on the news instead of just shaking your head and saying what a shame it is they are starving. I wish I was well enough to help someone else, somedays I can't even get out of bed with out help.
I know it looks like a big world out there, and I know you feel small. But if God has taught me anything, it is that just a little bit of faith can change it all. When I am better, not one moment will I waist. Because there are too many other people out there just like me, waiting. I will work to make their lives better.
Will you join me?
