Sweet merciful God in heaven. Holy, holy, holy God please rebuild that woman's face and restore everything that was lost. Everything that is not restored to her now on earth, Lord, restore it to her in heaven.
My intention here is not performative prayer to seem holier than KF. It is the opposite, I would like to see if any Farmers will please join me in this prayer. Please with humble sincerity I ask you to pray for this woman, as the story and the photos in the news link about the woman mauled by the chimpanzee constitute a truly upsetting horror. At the same time, the amount of progress made on restoring that woman's face is remarkable in itself. This woman is a living martyr and a saint. I pray with the assurance that God is not done healing her yet.
It is also upsetting that Landon has done these things to himself. Compare his story to this truly heroic woman. Her friend summoned her to assist with an angry chimpanzee. How many of us would even answer that call? It was bravery, and loyalty to her friend, and it came at terrible cost. For what greater love is there, than a man should die for his friends? Well, if a woman has her face and hands ripped off in service of her friend, that is of comparable if not greater glory and magnitude. Living through this has to be worse than just dying. In that situation, I would wish for death and so would you. She lived.
Landon also lived through a maiming. Yet his stripes were not earned in humble servitude of friendship. His trauma was inflicted in service of a swollen ego, a calcified heart, and a lustful spirit. Nonetheless there is a possibility of genuine living martyrdom. Mr. Hiscock, your grievous sufferings in the flesh may yet redeem your soul. Yet it is not suffering in itself that has value, rather patience and longsuffering and humility for Christ's sake. Let no eunuch say he is a dry root, a hopeless case.
Landon, you can be restored to full membership in the Body of Christ. Indeed, you can receive honor in heaven for the sufferings you bear on earth.
But Landon, the suffering will only do you good if you repent in the name of Jesus Christ for what you've done--marring the image of God in which you were made, and the temple of God in which the Holy Spirit is meant to dwell--and bear your burden in humility.
If suffering were good in and of itself, then intentionally wearing an uncomfortable pair of shoes all day would be glorying to God. No, what glorifies God is the submission of your will to his, Landon. Make your pain count. Come to Christ and live.
Why is it so high up and so far forwards? Does the surgeon realize that the vagina is not, in fact, a gaping featureless hole? Whatever your thoughts are on trans people, I do genuinely feel bad for this person. To look forwards to this for so long only to wake up, remove the bandages, and find you have been given what is effectively a gaping butthole where your dick was.
