I'm reading this book called Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder. Besides having to look up words like 'peripatetic,' I really like it.
Sometimes I find it hard to believe that it's a true story, that Dr. Paul Farmer exists, that his life is paralell to mine and the apathetic teenagers I know, and the Christians who hold street signs preaching, "God hates fags," and unfaithful husbands who leave their wives, and the man who kidnapped a woman and abused her for 18 years.
It is a true story. I would call Paul Farmer my hero, but I don't want to do what he did. Because there is so much more out there left to be done.
His story reminds us that it is possible to heal a broken world and to hurry up and go do it, anyways.