This one is AWESOME
Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little
girl named Liza who was suffering from a disease and needed a blood transfusion from her
five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed
the antibodies needed to combat the illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be
willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before
taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes, I'll do it if it will save Liza."
As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did,
seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded.
He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die
right away?" Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was
going to have to give her all his blood.
Addendum -- John 15:13 (NIV) "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down
his life for his friends."
