Failure to Thrive
Gabby Williams was born in 2005; she had some complications at birth, but she was able to fight them off and eventually her health stabilized and she went home, but, as the weeks and months passed by, Gabby hardly developed or grew. Eventually, doctors told Gabby’s parents that her rate of aging was much slower than other children, but there was no known genetic condition or abnormality to explain it. It’s a disorder that affects just a handful of people…
If It Looks Like a Duck . . .
On April 23rd, 2013, the television network Logo TV broadcast the documentary What? I Think I’m an Animal, featuring interviews with teenagers who believe their physical human bodies do not reflect their spiritual animal identifies. These people call themselves Therians or Otherkins, people who identify, in some intrinsic way, as an animal that exists or has existed on earth. Some believe that their soul is that of an animal while others believe the cause of their animal identity is psychological….
Change Demanded
STEP 1: Imagine you received a diagnosis from a doctor that you have a condition that will kill you in a week. This fast acting disease will destroy your body from the inside out and you last week of life will be incredibly painful and miserable. However, there is some hope (Humor me for a minute, please). This disease can be stopped dead in its track by following two simple steps. First, you must stop eating all processed sugar for…
Changed Life
I had a girl in my youth group whose life was drastically changed over a weekend. We were headed to a youth conference in MN and this girl was constantly asking if we could stop so she could use the bathroom. Now if you’ve ever been that guy or that girl who is asking that question, you know how that goes over. On the way home we were kind of in a hurry because we were supposed to be rendezvousing…