Today is World AIDS Day.
This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the CDC recognizing this plague as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Every year I take this time out to think about the friends and strangers lost to this terrible disease.
AIDS has a face. I have looked into that face as it realized it was infected. I have cried with that face as it was horrified with the changes wreaked on it by the virus. I have gazed into that face, trying to convey without words all my fervent hope that everything would be fine.
And I have sat alone, bereft of amazing people who deserved more from life than to be a statistic.
Yes, AIDS has a face. It can be the face of a friend. A sister. A baby. A lover. It is a human face.
And on my knees I offer up a prayer for people in my life still afflicted - and for those who I don't even know - for health and peace. And God's love.
Yes, it's been 25 years. And this is one occasion I wish never goes to 26.
- Farmer Ted
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