Saturday, January 29, 2011

If I could steal an email from a friend===for a friend!

If you don't know the following family, let me preface this entry in this way...
The Banicki family lives in Gniezno, Poland.  Their first child, Michael, passed away a couple years ago from an extremely rare disease, Niemann Pick-Type C, at the tender age of 14.  Now, their 3rd child, Eliza, is fighting the same disease with great determination to live life to the fullest despite the circumstances surrounding the difficulties of her life.

In order for Eliza to live life to the fullest, her family has to fight for the one medicine that helps stop her seizures and slows her regression.  Each treatment is thousands of dollars.

If Eliza was your child, however, you would not hesitate to fight the same way.  If Adelyne was sick, I would give my very heart to make her well again if that is what was needed.  That's what you do for your children.  Yet, there are those out there that wonder, "Why do we fight at all?"

Dr. Piotr Zaremba addresses this.

Before we get to his letter, however, I would like to say that if you are stirred to help Save Eliza, you may go to www.intouchmission.org and then go to Projects/Poland/Banicki Family.  You can donate directly online today.  In fact, I'll even attach the link:  Eliza Banicki
If you are in Poland or other parts of the world, you, too, may give to Eliza.  Go to Bread of Life Fights for Eliza
These donation pages make it extremely easy to donate right away, online, without hesitation for God's precious child.

If you take a look at the picture below, you will notice a child full of strength and life---that is not the physical form of Eliza today---but the inner Eliza remains. 


And, now, if I may present the email that I stole from a friend---for a friend.  I pray that as you read these words, your heart will be stirred and you will remember that life is worth fighting for despite the glories of heaven!  O, death, where is your victory???


Beloved,

This time I warn you!
Please, read this email only while sitting.
I do not want you to fall down under the burden of impression
and hurt yourselves unnecessarily
! (Joking).

A few weeks ago I shared with you about our need for the medicine for our Eliza Banicki, a girl suffering from the Niemann-Pick syndrome.

Now! Ready? We got 6 bottles of medicine free of charge! An equivalent of $70,000! Thus we have a provision for the next 18 weeks!

Thank you for your prayers!

Allow me now to add a short story.

A couple of days after I shared with you about our need for the medicine, somebody, in honest search for the reason, asked me:
-Peter, why are you so determined to keep this child alive at such a great expense?
-After all isn’t she saved? And if the heavens are so great, why do you struggle to keep her alive here?
-Do we have right to fight for one girl (saved anyway) if there is so much need around?

At first I did not know what to say.
I had to invite our Father to help me process these inspiring questions.
And I guess I have a piece of insight by now.

Just think for a moment, please: Why do we need sport? Our base ball or basket ball, or golf? Why do we need Olympic Games at all? Probably one tournament costs more than the medicine for all the Niemann-Pick Syndrome kids around the world!

Do we have right to compete in sport if there is so much need around?
Well, I think we do. We compete in sport not just for the sake of competition.
And we fight for Eliza not just for the sake of Eliza alone.

Fundamentally, our quest is for freedom.
Whenever we want to set ourselves free from the limitations caused by sickness,
whenever we want to break a new record, in doubt that the previous one was set once for all;
whenever we are determined to find out whether the impossible is truly impossible;
whenever we search unsearchable,
reach out to unreachable,
explain unexplainable,
or conquer the invincible,
we open the window for a freshening breeze of freedom
to which we were created by God,
and called in Christ.
Please, let us stand united,
reluctant to give up,
seeing no challenges too big,
until we will be able to say with our Savior:
"O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?" (1Cor 15:55).

Yours, as ever --
Piotr

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