Saturday, January 15, 2000
Saturday, January 15, 2000
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the
glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
After strapping to his waist a canvas pouch stuffed with medical supplies, Stewart ran several
miles, past woods where snipers lurked, to the city of Osijek. Later, he ran supplies to a hospital
in western Bosnia-Herzegovina, encountering heavy shelling on his seven-hour run back to safety.
Last fall he ran again, after being told that another hospital had been virtually leveled by shelling.
He explains his acts of heroism like this: "Some people were dying from simple infections,
because they had no antibiotics. They were ordinary, bewildered people, and nobody seemed to be
helping them."
Is there a more perfect picture of the world to which Christ came--"ordinary, bewildered people,
and nobody seemed to be helping them"? But somebody did help. Somebody did come to our
rescue. Christ came.
(John 1:14
NRSV)
Chris Stewart is a young British runner who won a major race in Slovenia in the fall of 1991.
While in that troubled land Stewart learned of the desperate plight of people living in small towns
in Croatia--people who are cut off from international aid due to the terrible conflicts that are being
fought there. Stewart, the third-place finisher in both the 1976 and 1977 New York City
marathons, decided to do what he could to help. He began running relief supplies across
sniper-infested battle lines into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Stewart's
case, "running" supplies is to be taken literally.
Dear God, you came to my aid. Show me the way to make a real difference in the lives of those in
need. Amen.
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