Passion's Price

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - MLK, Jr. What are YOU willing to die for?

Amid the death and destruction that has befallen Haiti, a number of amazing stories of courage and survival have started to emerge.

~American James Girly, 64, was found by French military rescuers from the Securite Civile after he was brought out of the destroyed Hotel Montana where he was trapped for 50 hours in Port-au-Prince.

~Sarlah Chand ,65, was another of the survivors from the remains of the hotel along with seven other Americans who were saved.

~Gladys Louis Jeune was dragged out alive from the rubble of her home, nearly 43 hours after Tuesday's quake, where she was greeted by her ecstatic daughter.

~Native rescuers dug out a 3-month-old baby who was amazingly found alive in the remains of his home, hours after the magnitude 7.0 tremor hit.

~A Spanish rescuer carried to safety two-year-old Redjeson Hausteen, another of the quake’s young survivors.

When I think of the volunteers, foreign and local, who give their time and more often, endanger their lives, I get a glimpse at why Christ said his favorite thing amongst creation is mankind. It takes passion to set yourself aside for someone else, something bigger than yourself. I can't go to Haiti. I can't save the world with dollar bills. But to behold the grace of humanity sparks the motivation to improve the smaller world around me which I can do good for. I used to think it was abstruse selfishness for me to be motivated out of desire to please myself with myself. But that is not the case when the cost is greater than the payoff.

So what is the price of your passion?