Thought for today - Love Heals

I watched an interesting movie about a young woman called Ali Gertz who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 - she was heterosexual, never taken drugs, no blood transfusions. By the time she got PCP (a very nasty pnuemonial illness that most people's body's wouldn't even notice), the HIV had progressed to AIDS and she was in a very bad way indeed.

Anyway, this woman decided to get a voice and started doing a lot of lectures and things in schools, talking with teenagers about looking after themselves, taking responsibility by wearing a condom, and breaking down some of the myths that HIV could only happen to white gay men, druggies, people with some connection to Africa or prostitutes.

Almost 20 years on, and I have to say that those myths still exist.

And little are people realising that HIV (and STIs) is everyone's problem and that it's in the heterosexual community and here to stay.

Anyway, the point of my story is that this woman Ali, her family and her friends set up a charity called Loveheals.org.

Love Heals.

I think that is such a beautiful name for a charity.

It is so true. Love does heal. Love is the way to peace and light and hope and acceptance and truth.

So, here's to love. And here's to healing...