Chart Your Course

Everyone in life deals with adversity.  It’s simply a fact of life.  However, thankfully, very few of us will experience the kind of  adversity that Dan Caro went through.

Dan Caro is someone I’ve been wanting to introduce you to for almost a year.  My husband, son and I met Dan in April 2009 and we all found his story to be a very inspirational one.  It’s a story I’ve been wanting to share with you since the day we first heard Dan speak.

You see…

At the young age of two Dan went into his garage to retrieve a toy.  A spark from the water heater ignited some gasoline and Dan was caught in the fireball explosion.  Dan was severely burned with third degree burns over most of his tiny body.  Doctors gave him basically no chance of survival.

The pain was excruciating, so excruciating in fact, that his parents prayed that God take him back home so he would no longer suffer.  But it seemed that God had other plans for Dan and Dan survived.

As you can imagine, surviving wasn’t easy.  Dan’s fingers were so badly burned that they fell off when the medical staff changed his bandages.  He was badly disfigured.  Most of his skin was burned away, as was much of his face.  Dan went through years Read the rest of this entry »