Proof The Bible Is True

I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and lathered up my full head of hair with shaving cream. With intense concentration and a few bold strokes, I shaved my scalp clean. Just like the man in the photograph I’d taped to the mirror—slick-passing (and slick-headed) NBA point guard Mike Bibby of the Sacramento Kings. That was the part where the editors inserted the voiceover: “Serious sports fans need serious sports coverage…”

 

The things I did for my acting career! I’d had second thoughts about sacrificing my vanity to film a commercial for the Sacramento Bee sports section. My friends said I looked goofy with a shaved head—and as it was, I wasn’t having much luck in love. “It’ll be months before your hair grows back and you can rejoin the dating scene,” one friend told me. Ultimately, I trusted that God had given me this opportunity for a reason.

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