Jackson has a secret. At fourteen years old, he has a secret so big, so important, that he can’t share it with any one else. Not even his parents. Not a friend. Not a teacher. Not his pastor. Only he and God know about
this secret, and of course it was God’s idea in the first place.
Jackson has a superpower. Just like Superman and Wonder Woman, Jackson has his own superhuman ability.
But unlike the comic book characters you read about, or the superheroes you see in the movies, Jackson is for real. Nobody made him up. He’s a real live teen-age boy who discovered his superpower one day in his fourth grade classroom when Ms. Bigg was being unreasonably harsh to his friend Michael.
It was 2:30 pm
on a Friday afternoon. Michael has ADHD, he’s hyper and has trouble sitting still, especially when there’s only twenty minutes left until the final bell.
Ms. Bigg was cranky and very short on patience after the long week. No doubt, Michael was acting up and very annoying – but he was trying. He played with his fidget spinner, he tried tapping a pencil against his leg under the desk, and he even opened his anxiety app and did a few minutes of focus which usually worked. But not that
day.
The teacher knew in her head that Michael needed special accomodations. But in her heart, she hated Michael. That day like many others, her heart led the way and she was downright mean to the young student.
After too many insults and one burst of temper directed squarely at the little boy, Jackson felt something like a switch turn on. The switch was in his chest, on the left side. It was a quick snap that brought on a brilliant light, so startling and so bright, that Jackson
instantly shut his eyes to protect them.
Under his eyelids he could see something that looked like the screen of a heart monitor. It was Ms. Bigg’s heart that Jackson could see. There was a pattern he was watching with eyes closed, zig zagged peaks growing higher and higher with every ticking second. It was clear Ms. Bigg was heading to an explosion of...READ MORE
