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hope, faith, charity

It was a simple act of not accepting the cash. A simple answer of, "No, I am not going to accept your cash, keep it." It was when Jo bought a mini generator set for his uncle who suffered from muscular dystrophy. A damaging disease that literally robs you of your muscular abilities. His uncle had to survive on a life support machine to keep him breathing. Every time his housing area had a black out, his wife had to literally rush him to the hospital nearest to his home and there was very little margin for error in timing.

That's when Jo decided to get his uncle one of those mini generator sets to power the life support systems if in case of a black out. The ones you see night market stalls using. Jo contacted me because my dad could get slightly cheaper prices for one of those generators.

On the day we went to get the generator and took it to Jo's uncle's house to set it up and sort of just let the family members know how to run the little thing. That's when I saw the first case of muscular dystrophy. He was really skinny and there was life support machine by his bed. The muscles in his body was depleted so badly that he could hardly move even his arms when he spoke to Jo and I.

When we were about to leave, Jo's aunty wanted to pass him the money for the generator. "No, I am not going to accept your cash, keep it. The genset is for uncle. He took care of me as a kid, he deserves it." His uncle was so happy for what Jo had done for him.

They say there are those who survive from hope, faith and charity. I say there are those who live hope, faith and charity. Jo had hope - hope for a man who took care of him when he was young, a good man who became bedridden due to muscular dystrophy. Jo had faith -for he was a strong believer in the Bahai' fatih, a religion that believes strongly in unity and he believe God was telling him that his uncle needed the mini generator to keep surviving. And Jo showed charity - an innate ability to give without looking back, to give without require something in return, to give because he wanted and because he knew it was the right thing to do.

And that, my dear readers (if there are readers out there, that is), is hope, faith and charity epitomized in our current world.........

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