Recently
watched a 3 part series on Netflix – Inside Bills Brain - Decoding Bill Gates
Bill Gates
rank #2 among richest Americans - # 1 is founder of Amazon.
Gates is
worth 100 Billion Dollars.
Series shows
how he rose to create Microsoft and provides an inside look at his life and
relationships.
To his
credit, he realized he needed to do something positive with his wealth.
In 2008 he created
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
They have
already given away $45 Billion.
The show focused
on 3 Projects
Provide clean
drinking water in the poorest areas of the world by focusing in on sanitation –
building a better toilet.
To get rid
of polio throughout the world.
To help the
environment – how to make safe nuclear power.
He has incredible
faith in science and technology – seek the answer - work harder – there must be
an answer
You have to
admire him in many ways. He really wants to help people and make a
difference. What if we had the same
faith in God as Mr. Gates does in science? – Faith the size of a mustard seed?
- who knows what we could accomplish???
It is
challenging to grow faith:
1) Bill has had many ups and downs in
life, just like us – death of friends,
parents, business challenges, - but he has
stayed the course – for us, some days seem perfect, other days nothing goes right.
Do we give up on faith during difficult times? – or do we hold on tighter?!
2) Bill is always learning. He always is
carrying a bag of books and he reads and reads. He is trying to grow in
knowledge. How can our faith grow if we neglect it? We must have a discipline
of prayer, reading the Bible, good spiritual practices, feeding our minds and
souls with good food.
Now, where
many of us part with Bill Gates is their Foundation’s funding of population control.
Melinda is a Catholic, but she has chosen to ignore Catholic teaching –
Catholic teaching, which has been confirmed by science!
Many people say
the only truth comes from science – but what does science tell us?
5 weeks after conception –
the human heart begins to beat
6 weeks – the nose, mouth
and ears begin to take shape
7 weeks – hands and feet
are forming
8 weeks – baby is moving
10 weeks – all organs and
structures are in place, ready to grow.
13 weeks – baby has
fingerprints and foot prints.
We agree with science – this
is the description of a human life – and that life deserves protection. To
ignore that is poor science.
As so many work to better
human life – remember where it all begins – who knows –
one of these little
children might have the best answer to clean water, to eliminating disease, to
provide safe and clean energy for us all.
Respect Life.
