The MEANING and ESSENCE of LIFE. Real story!

Voluntary donations here: Dr. Paul Wilson Brand made a huge contribution to the field of surgery, pioneering tendon transplantation in the hands of leprosy patients. Descended from a family of Christian missioners, he was the first doctor who realized that leprosy is not a disease of tissues, but of nerves, and it is the loss of the sensation of pain that leads the patient to frequent trauma and tissue decay. The doctor wrote: “The core of life and ministry can be learned only by observing the ministers. The sense of life isn’t revealed in abstract arguments and reasoning. I remember a French Church minister named Abba Pierre. He came to our clinic for lepers in a simple monk’s dress with a rolled-up blanket and a canvas bag. He told me his story, which, like other stories of the lives of dedicated ministers of Christ, gives an understanding of the sense of life. After World War II, the Church sent him to work with Parisian beggars who froze to death in the