Aug 17
Arch-a-thon Post #48: So What’s This Really About?
You may well ask why I would write nearly 50 posts to try to raise funds for people I’ve only known a year and could, conceivably, never see again for the rest of my life. (After all, to get to see them, I’ve got to get up enough courage to get on an airplane for a four hour flight!)
Actually, I think I will see them again, and I don’t just mean that in a “70 years from now up in Heaven” kind of way.
Well, let me answer it this way: if, after reading these posts, you come away thinking, “Wow, that Patrick is really a nice guy,” then I have totally failed to make the right point.
I’m not a nice guy; I’m the most self-centered person I know. By a long shot. This blog is about me…that’s why it’s called Patrick’s Place. But this weekend isn’t about me. That’s why it’s called the Arch-a-thon.
It’s about them. It’s about their dream and how they’re serving God in fulfilling that dream.
It’s about setting aside the sadness of seeing them move away, and there’s a lot of that. It’s about helping them, however I can, actually make that move that ugly, selfish side of me doesn’t want to make. It’s about lifting up these two folks whom I admire so much.
And it’s about Proverbs 17:17, and thanking Archie for having been there for me.
That’s what it is about.
