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Kevin Bacon Surprises Students at High School Where ‘Footloose’ Was Filmed — Announces He’s Visiting Them for Prom

After some very serious lobbying from students at Payson High School in Payson, Utah, where “Footloose” was filmed, Kevin Bacon announced Friday that he would be returning to the high school for this year’s senior prom. 

“My Last Thought Was a Desperate Plea to God, ‘Lord, Give Me the Strength to Die Well’”: Mom With ‘Invisible Illness’ Shares Her Harrowing...

"'Help me to not look like I am suffocating,' I prayed. 'Lord, please protect my son’s heart from this.’ And I faded away."

“My Husband Turned Blue to Gray”: Wife In Shock Over the One Drink That Killed Her Husband

"The doctor's exact words were 'People drinking these drinks are playing Russian Roulette with their lives.' I was blown away and couldn’t believe just one drink could do this damage"... And KIDS can buy these anywhere.

Mama, I Pray Your Children Feel Pain

“I don’t want my child to ever feel one ounce of pain.” Those were the words a friend shared with me.

I know, mama, but what if God has a purpose in their pain? What if he is refining them, making them holy, and using their disappointments to draw them to himself. What if we protect them so much, that they never look to God, but rather to us, to make them whole?

That’s a job I am not qualified for.

Of course we don’t want to see our children hurting. We would gladly take on their disappointments, their failures, their pain because that is what mama’s do and when our children hurt we do too.

The fragile places of a mother’s heart drive us to the cross and it’s there that I’ve prayed prayers like that too.

“God, please heal my baby. God, please guide my child. God, please reveal yourself to my son. God, please help my daughter make good choices. God, please keep my children safe.

When God creates a baby in the womb of his mother, she becomes his greatest advocate.

She can’t imagine that anyone could love him more. She can’t imagine that anyone delights in him as much as she does.

But God does.

And sometimes, in his great wisdom, he allows a little pain.

And sometimes, in his great wisdom, he allows a lot of pain.

And while we can’t often reconcile our suffering with his goodness I have seen purpose in it.

I am closer to God in my brokenness than I am in my wholeness.

I am closer to God when I am completely helpless to change my situation.

I am closer to God when he is the only One who can sustain me.

Not my husband. Not my children. Not even my mama.

So I pray that whatever comes our way, whatever my children face, that it would draw them to the cross. I ask God not to spare them from trials but to sustain them through them. And I pray that God will protect this mama’s heart.

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Kevin Bacon Surprises Students at High School Where ‘Footloose’ Was Filmed — Announces He’s Visiting Them for Prom

After some very serious lobbying from students at Payson High School in Payson, Utah, where “Footloose” was filmed, Kevin Bacon announced Friday that he would be returning to the high school for this year’s senior prom. 

“My Last Thought Was a Desperate Plea to God, ‘Lord, Give Me the Strength to Die Well’”: Mom With ‘Invisible Illness’ Shares Her Harrowing...

"'Help me to not look like I am suffocating,' I prayed. 'Lord, please protect my son’s heart from this.’ And I faded away."

“My Husband Turned Blue to Gray”: Wife In Shock Over the One Drink That Killed Her Husband

"The doctor's exact words were 'People drinking these drinks are playing Russian Roulette with their lives.' I was blown away and couldn’t believe just one drink could do this damage"... And KIDS can buy these anywhere.