Now ask God these questions, and see if you get a signal:

Do I intend to cure everything?

Do I intend for others to?

Or think up something new, and carry it out.

We can make this happen. Express your intention in every way you’re able to,and as completely as possible, perpetually.

I’ll tell you a little story:

I had a friend and student back in the ’80s named Bob Zemske. He was one of the first people to get HIV. Be the first kid on your block, right? Back then the company I worked with offered an ongoing series of seminars called the Life Games, which used some of the participants as teachers; ZemBob, as we called him, was one of them. ZemBob taught “Emptying Relationship Of Content” with two other people, a fashion model named Susan Crosby and John, a young, handsome district attorney. I remember that these two married a while after they taught that Life Game together. Now, fashion models are tall, and so was the D.A., and ZemBob was short. We had a photo of the three of them on the poster, and they looked so cute together that the Life Game filled up in a week — there were no more seats. ZemBob was just a lovable person.

He had substantial wealth. Plus, when he was ill he got disability. And he gave everything he owned to AIDS research and, as he was dying, lived on a shoestring and also donated that disability money to AIDS research. He knew that no cure would come in time to save him — he was too far gone. But he wouldn’t stop fighting.

I talked to ZemBob a few days before he died and he told me that. And he didn’t ask me for anything, but I heard an unspoken message. ZemBob was asking me to fight, too. I didn’t promise him anything, not out loud, anyway, but inside of me I made a vow.

The CureDrive is partially an expression of that vow I made. And we can thank Bob – ZemBob – for that.

Do you have a person who lives on in your heart?