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My good friend’s grandson was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (sometimes known as Brittle Bone Disease) and is severely physically disabled although he is a very sweet, loving, intellectually bright and inquisitive eight year old child.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_imperfecta

He has had to undergo numerous painful surgeries in order to place and then replace every couple of years, the metal rods that keep his spine in place and the numerous other reconstructive surgeries on his other affected joints and musculature.

His grandmother, mother and older sister do their best to care for him but it’s not easy. But even the simple task of moving him from room to room is very difficult because if done incorrectly, it could result in serious injury or even death. It’s not easy to find someone outside the immediate family qualified and adequately trained to care for his special needs even if they could afford it.

His father abandoned him and his mother shortly after he was born and his mother has had her own health problems and so has been unable to work full time.

But all of this child’s medical care; his doctors visits, therapy and surgeries, have all been provided, completely free of charge by the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia. I can’t imagine the costs, but it must be over a million dollars by now. And the Shriners also provide a place for his mother to stay near the hospital, at no cost whenever her son is in the hospital.

http://www.shrinershq.org/Shrine/

My friend is a very conservative and very traditional Evangelical Christian and she has many times told me how grateful she and her daughter are for the Shriners Hospital for all they have done for her grandchild.

Yes, like you Mason guys are like soooooooooooo busted!

If you will Freepmail me the little fellow's name, I will make sure that we remember him and his family during Lodge Prayer, as well as in my private devotions.

The Scottish and York Rites also have programs that help kids that are similar to the Shriner's Program.

Of course, it's just part of our devious plan to take over the world and make everyone worship the devil... one little child at a time. /sarc. Thanks so much for sharing the story. It means a lot.

So is your sister more grateful to the Masons or to Christ Jesus for the provision?

The Children’s hospitals are indeed a good work. If provided independently of faith in Christ, then their rewards have been received already, worthy no future inheritance.

If they are provided through faith in Christ, to glorify Him, without any expectation or anticipation of reward, then they probably shall be honored with a crown in heaven by Christ Himself.

Additionally, if such philantropic works are done independent of faith in Christ, they may be parlayed into evil by the Adversary. It’s for this reason that the number one priority in all things is that they be performed through faith in Christ.