"Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks on the heart." ~1 Samuel 16:7
On the inside, Jared Higgin was just a regular kid. He liked to hang out, play video games, and see movies. But on the outside, he wasn't so normal. He had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at age seven and a year later had been confined to a wheelchair. At the time of diagnosis, the doctors told him he had only a year or so to live. That had been two and a half years ago. But he had told the doctors that he knew that he wouldn't die, because his grandmother was still alive. "She would be devastated if I died before her," Jared would say.
Whenever Jared would wheel himself down the halls at school he would hear snickers and stifled laughs from the rest of his classmates. He knew that they were commenting on the sickly look of his limbs and his pale, bruised face. He was hurt, but he understood where they were coming from. After all, he was them once.
Two months later,......
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