It occurred to me that what I really want is something to die for. Ironically, the thing that you live for, too, is the thing you will die for as well. I heard about someone who died for something this morning.
I woke up to the story of Marla Ruzicka on NPR this morning. She was the founder of CIVIC, a humanitarian aid group designed to help out the civilian victims of war.
She was caught in a suicide bombing while travelling in Baghdad on the way to help out a victim of a recent bombing. She died this past Saturday. She was 28.
I was incredibly moved by her story. To the core. I started weeping just for the life that was lost, the very good life that was lost. She was evidently selfless, daring and motivated. Not to mention energetic, good natured and spirited.
As I sit here, I think about my own life. My own years spent. It makes me reflect on how much time I feel like I've lost and how much I want to regain. It makes me think about what it means to GIVE fearlessly, LOVE fearlessly and cleave to nothing but that to spend your life living for that of others! I know I have long had this craving. I hope that I can continue to live and abide by this. I hope I never make it someone ELSE's business to care and give to the world. I hope I make it my own.
Marla founded CIVIC when she was 25. And though I find myself mourning her loss, I know that no one can say that her life was spent on nothing. What can you say about your life? I hope I don't have a momentary response to Marla's death. I hope that though she is gone, others will rise, inspired, brave and motivated.
Here is the story from NPR. I hope you have 45 seconds to listen to it.
I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. -- John 12:24
We are blessed that Christ came into the world. He is the being where things end and begin. With Him in the equation, suddenly things make sense and confusion falls away.
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