Literally.
You see, Bill and Scott Bennett are alive today thanks to the selfless gift of organ donation. As such, they have become ardent advocates for the process -- even though their experiences are from opposite ends of the donation spectrum.
Their purpose may be one, but their gifts are as different as frankincense and myrrh.
Scott's donation arrived the old-fashioned way -- out of tragedy. Bill's was offered freely by a friend.
The traditional Christmas story revolves around a miraculous birth. But this one deals with something miraculous in its own right: rebirth.
"As people get older and their bodies begin to fail and so forth, you think, 'Well, I won't enjoy that in this life, but I will in the resurrection,' " said Scott, 54, of Salem, who was the recipient of a heart transplant in 2004. "Well, we've experienced a degree of resurrection. To have that back, in my case, for me to be able to get on a stair-stepper and be able to charge for two miles or the first time you get out and have a long walk ... to be able to do that and to have the wind to be able to do that -- transplantation not only gives you your life back, it gives you your lifestyle back.
Read more: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/this-christmas-utah-county-brothers-tout-gift-of-life/article_4d2ef48f-2f56-562b-9890-d47391e9d962.html#ixzz1hZTvRbiM
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