EPTIn the video there are two interviews, one is of a twenty year old who works at Northridge and as a child he was born in Russia and was brought over to America where he was adopted. Because of Trinoble, when his mother gave birth to him, his kidneys barely worked. He was talking about how he was told all his life he wouldn’t live very long. The other interview was of Steve and his wife talking about their 16-year-old son with a promising hokey carrier. Now to me this is where to story gets really inspirational and really sad and I am aware that it is more troubling for me because I am personally close to Steve. Steve’s son was messing around with his friends. They were celebrating getting into a very good hokey school that almost no one gets accepted into less than twenty years of age. It was for pro training, for Olympics or whatever else. While goofing off and celebrating, he fell off of his friends pick up truck and hit his head. The doctor’s told them there was no chance that he would live and wanted to now if they could donate his organs. It was hard of course to say yes, but they told them to use them to help someone else live.
So Steve and his wife and the rest of his family are very upset and are going to be out of the story for a little while. So the hospital gives the organs to some charity or some organ donating service and the first group on the list was Northridge. At this time the Russian guy was working at Northridge doing work in the children ministries section. When the organ donating service called Northridge they told him about it, as they knew about his kidneys. He was stunned to learn of this and didn’t know how to respond, or even how to feel. He wanted to be excited, but he was scarred that he was dreaming or it might be taken away or be a joke. He was so overwhelmed.
After the surgery they told him who to organs came from and they also told Steve’s family that his son’s death saved someone’s life and told them who. Both were shocked that they worked together. They had heard of each other, but they hadn’t known each other closely. They are all now very close friends and Steve’s family is trying to find a new normal with one less member of the family only a year after his death. It turns out that a month before I came to volunteer was when his son died. I never had the faintest clue that had happened to him, he never let on to it and he never said it to me. To me this is a very inspirational story and I wanted to share it with everyone I can. I could at this point say “With things like this how can you deny that God exits, how else could something this amazing happen?” Or “Come to Northridge to meet him and stay for service” But no! I just want to share this story with all of you, so that maybe you will realize your lives don’t suck so much, or that if your life is going through negative times, that it will get better and it may happen in the strangest way. I just want to leave you with that thought.
Good Night and Good Day
Forever Fight to the Valorous Demise
You are loved… if only by me J
Sincerely Genesis CrimsonHeart
P.S.(I was thinking about making that my new out-trow)
P.S.S My Intro was going to be Welcome Ladies Gentlemen and variations there of!
P.S.S.S Tell me what you think about P.S. and P.S.S. and the story itself
