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I am so sick of complacency.. I am PASSIONATE about people coming to Christ and I can’t do that sitting around waiting for the church to pacify me and make me feel all good and fluffy. I need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable in this life. – Heather Williams, SOS Radio artist

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Today must be sad video day.  If my last post about the new music video from The Afters didn’t make a tear flow from your eye, this surely will.

After Wayne Giroux was killed by a drunk driver in June, Spot still seemed to carry the hope that her beloved owner would come back. Every day for the past five months, she’s been going to a quiet spot along a country road in Loan Oak, Texas, waiting for him to pick her up.

Grab a tissue and click play.

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This little boy is awesome.  Like most five-year-old boys his age, Aidan loves monsters.  He loves drawing monsters, pretending to be a monster, and dressing up as one.  In fact, I bet if you were to ask him, I would imagine that he would tell you that he would one day like to grow up to BE a monster.

This past September, Aidan was diagnosed with with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.  He has survived his first round of chemo and is in high spirits, but doctors say that he is going to need to go through two to three more years of chemo treatments to beat this. Surprisingly, Aidan didn’t let this news drown his spirits.  Instead, he found solace in the one thing that he loves to do:  drawing monsters.

And as any family who has had to deal with a severe medical situation knows, these types of situations can not only be energy draining, they can also be detrimental to the families pocketbook.  Because of Aidan’s constant hospitalization, mom and dad both have encountered loss of wages and a never ending stack of medical bills.

Enter Etsy.com.  Aidan’s aunt setup an account on Etsy, the online marketplace, with the intentions of all donations of Aidan’s monster art going towards the needs of the family.  Within 24 hours of launching the store, over 400 prints were ordered and the store quickly ran out.  The same family that once considered getting 2nd and 3rd jobs and selling their house, suddenly found new hope.

For personal reasons, I have a difficult time getting behind medical research fund-raising events with a goal of raising dollars to find a cure for a specific disease.  However, that’s another topic for another day.

This is a cause that I can get behind.  This little five-year-old boy is a true entrepreneur, a fighter, and a true champion of the global cause of monsters everywhere.  To learn more about Aidan and to check out his artwork, click here to visit his website or his Etsy online store.