Today is AIDS Day. Happy AIDS day!?! It is hard to be joyful about a day of awareness for such a terrible pandemic, but as the plight of AIDS rages on, there are ounces of hope and a day of awareness can inspire more ounces.
CNN gives an account of a chunky 5 foot Jesuit priest who just recently passed away at 80 years old who fought venomously for children of HIV/AIDS. He took on drug companies to get affordable medicine and his incredible persistence built, from scratch, a lab to monitor his orphans.
I like stories like this and I like the Kingdom of God that this Jesuit preached and witnessed. It reminds me to