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When I Wished upon a Star - From Broken Homes to Mended Hearts (Paperback)
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When I Wished upon a Star - From Broken Homes to Mended Hearts (Paperback)
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Growing up as a patient with congenital heart disease, Brandon Lane
Phillips often felt alone. He knew no one else who had his heart
condition and believed no one understood his condition. Brandon
believed he would die young. Like many congenital heart patients,
he wondered if he would have a long life. It is only natural to
question one's mortality when open-heart surgery is what enabled
you to survive childhood. Brandon worried that his heart defect
caused his parents' divorce and questioned just how much his
illness had affected his siblings since so much extra attention was
devoted to him. He longed to have the type of close relationship
with his father that he saw on many of his favorite TV shows. At 11
years of age, he was so desperate to find answers that he asked God
to show him that He loved him. Soon after, he received a wish to
meet child actor Jeremy Miller from TV's Growing Pains. Brandon had
wished to meet him because he envied his "perfect" fictional
family. After one of the show's stars told Brandon that God had a
plan for his life, Brandon left the set that evening feeling that
the trip had been orchestrated as an answer to his prayer. There
are several God-like coincidences that occur along Brandon's path
of becoming a pediatric cardiologist. Many times when Brandon would
face a life experience big enough to shake his faith, an improbable
experience would occur that would remind him of his wish and God's
answer to his prayer. Throughout his career, he would encounter
other patients who felt alone and had questions about their own
mortality. Brandon chose medicine as his profession because he
greatly admired his childhood pediatric cardiologist. And even
though a need for a second open-heart surgery at the beginning of
medical school threatened Brandon's dream of becoming a physician,
he would ultimately be trained by the very physicians who had cared
for him. Brandon's journey of hope found within the pages of When I
Wished Upon a Star is a story of giving back and finding purpose in
life through the intervention of God's great grace and perfect
timing. The other life examined in this book belongs to Jeremy
Miller, child actor, celebrity wish, and the friend who played an
important role in Brandon's journey. Brandon's life truly changed
forever after having met Jeremy on the television set of Growing
Pains. While Brandon was dealing with his struggles, so too was
Jeremy. In When I Wished Upon a Star, Jeremy shares "secrets" from
his childhood that have previously gone untold. It would be easy to
say that Jeremy was a child star, and that historically, most child
stars aren't expected to have a good end. Still Jeremy's secrets
shocked Brandon and brought him to tears. They also shed light on
the reason for Jeremy's battle with alcohol. Brandon would learn
that Jeremy, too, envied the life that his fictional character
lived. And so when the TV show ended, Jeremy almost did too. At the
time of his wish, only God could have predicted how Brandon's life
and those of the stars of his favorite TV show would intertwine in
the decades to follow; no one could have foreseen that a wish made
by a young boy would give both he and Jeremy hope for their future
and help them find purpose in the lives they were created for by a
loving God--lives that would live on despite troubles and despair.
Brandon was meant to use the experiences of his childhood to help
others. It is the only way to explain how his life has come full
circle time and time again.
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