Day 73 of 98 Days...First Day of Passover

Today is the first day of Passover (Pesach).

All of us that are familiar with biblical teachings (or have seen the "Ten Commandments") know that in the book of Exodus, the children of Israel gathered in family homes and spread lamb's blood on doorways as a sign to the spirit of the Lord to bypass them as that spirit brought death upon the first born of Egypt for the sins of the Pharaoh and his ministers. Following days witnessed the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt and their freedom from bondage.

Wouldn't it be something if today we could similarly mark our homes with a symbol of healthy blood to ward off the misery and death of blood cancers; leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma? And wouldn't it be a welcome relief to gather as a community and simply walk away from the miseries of pain, discomfort, and disease?

Unfortunately that cannot be counted on to happen. But we do have an alternative path to defeat these fearsome foes. As did the victim's supporters of polio some fifty years ago, we can raise money for research and a cure from everyone whether it be a hundred dollars, a single dollar or in the case of the March of Dimes - dimes and lots of them. Because even the smallest contribution when multiplied by many thousands adds up to a tremendous sum and an invaluable gift to the researchers who are daily toiling to find the breakthrough that will end killer diseases like leukemia.

So today on this first day of Passover, when so many were spared death, won't you pass the word of this life-saving campaign to your friends and family? The gift you can give today is spreading the word of the mission from which will come the dollars for the cure.

May you have a healthy and peaceful Passover.