Pastor's Corner December 21, 2003 |
4th Sunday of Advent |
Sacrifice Oneself for the Others
An accident happened in Toronto on December 8, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. The walls from
a building which was undergoing demolitions suddenly collapsed onto an English
language school inside an adjacent building. Casualties were expected, but the
medical staff was touched by what they saw in the rescue scene - they found a tenyear -
old survivor under an adult body.
They were assuming that at the moment when tons of rubble was pounding down
the classroom, this courageous man covered the boy sitting next to him in class,
using his own body, in order to prevent little boy from more serious injuries. He
saved the boy's life. Jesus once said, "greater love has no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends." (John 15.13)
Abraham Lincoln, one of the Presidents of United States once said, "When men
encounter unexpected incidents in their lives, the expression of the highest level of
morality becomes unbridled."
The boy who has survived in the rubble is a Korean named Tommy. His rescuer was
a young adult from Costa Rica named Augusto M. Solis.
May God bless the soul of this young man with eternal peace, and may his noble
spirit remind us to be considerate to others in our daily lives.
Wish you all a Merry Christmas.
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