Ten years ago, my 14-year-old son, Jack, became very ill with heart disease. For several months Jack lived on life support and we were forced to watch him . I prayed for a heart to become available, but it made me so because I knew for that to happen, someone else’s child would have to die. How could anyone pray for that? I still remember so clearly the morning we got the call that there was a . As we stood in Jack’s hospital room watching them prepare him for operation, we the feeling of bittersweet. His dad and I realized that at the moment we were standing there with so much and so much love, while another family somewhere was saying to their child and was in great pain. We knelt down together and , and we prayed for them and we thanked them for giving such a gift.
Ten days later, Jack was to come home. He had received a second of life. Over the next two , he got to go to high school, learn to drive and have his first girlfriend. He put his brand new heart to good , volunteering at the homeless shelter and the elderly.
Jack’s new heart him when he was 16. We were heartbreaking, we still saw it as a miracle (奇迹). We received two years with him we would never have had without the organ donation. When he died, his eyes to someone who wanted to see, someone who, perhaps, had seen the faces of the family they loved so dearly. I believe that one day I will look into the of someone else’s son or daughter, and I will see those sky blue eyes looking back at me — the evidence of selfless .
A.breathing B.dying C.smiling D.playing
A.upset B.excited C.lonely D.surprised
A.gift B.room C.heart D.child
A.compared B.imagined C.described D.experienced
A.power B.sadness C.hope D.pain
A.goodbye B.thanks C.sorry D.hello
A.talked B.cried C.argued D.complained
A.creative B.practical C.expensive D.selfless
A.free B.able C.proud D.ashamed
A.chance B.way C.right D.pleasure
A.weeks B.months C.years D.decades
A.place B.effect C.promise D.use
A.saving B.protecting C.teaching D.helping
A.left B.failed C.escaped D.cheated
A.and B.so C.but D.for
A.precious B.hard C.full D.necessary
A.returned B.went C.led D.moved
A.even B.already C.never D.yet
A.face B.dream C.body D.life
A.support B.rescue C.trust D.giving