When Sean was 6 or 7 months old, it appeared to me that his legs were bowing more than normal. About 9 months, they started to really bow.

He started walking and his ankles started turning in when he walked.

Doctors have talked to me about growth hormone therapy. There is limb lengthening surgery, as well.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.