My God...

Read the stories and join the Virtual Candlelight Vigil. This is serious. These are real people and they are suffering, uninsured or barely insured, and they are afraid for their lives or the lives of their loved ones.

I pity the cold-hearted and the willfully ignorant on this issue.

Acquainted with Presumably a Darwin Award Contestant

I learned this afternoon that a colleague at work decided THIS was a good idea - being photographed with her wedding dress set aflame.

Now hospitalized with burns over 12% of her body, I'm hoping the following was NOT her inspiration:

Bride On Fire
Prophetic Word From Lana Vawser (Perry)

I saw my wedding dress hanging up today, and when I saw the dress a vision began. All of a sudden I saw the most brightest, hottest and purest fire I have ever seen fall from heaven and engulf this wedding dress. The wedding dress didn't burn and singe, ruin like it would if you literally set a garment on fire. The more the wedding dress 'soaked' up the fire and allowed this fire to engulf it's every part, the more the dress shone so brightly, so white and sparkled in a way that I have never seen. As I saw a quick glimpse of this vision, I felt an leap in my spirit that what I was seeing was indeed for the body of Christ today.

Oh, there's more if you can stand reading it without rolling your eyes or vomiting or both. (Gave me a headache.)

So my first question was, "Does she have any children?" And my second question was, "Is she trying to win a Darwin Award?"

Did she have any qualms about this when she put her dress on? When she soaked it with accelerant? When someone lit the match? When the flame was touched to the fabric?

We gossiped about this briefly at work. Our little gaggle was in awe of the breathtaking stupidity of an otherwise smart woman. The most preposterous yet befitting comment (under the circumstances) was "Thank God she wore her hair up."

Well, if she is a bat-crap crazy Jesus freak, then she would probably reject the Darwin Award, because Darwinism is of the devil.

Personally, I think stupidity is of the devil. Perhaps while she's getting skin grafts, she might make some strides in the IQ department.

I've never found myself laughing at a burn victim, until now. I mean, how can you not?!