{"id":5799,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dilbert-creator-gets-voice-back\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:48","slug":"dilbert-creator-gets-voice-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dilbert-creator-gets-voice-back\/","title":{"rendered":"DILBERT\n  CREATOR GETS VOICE BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Adversity; Body; Crisis; Disease; Healing; Health; Illness; Miracles; Overcoming; Power; Struggles; Testing<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 103:3; 145:8\u20139; Isaiah 64:3; Romans 10:8\u201313; James 1:2\u20134<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Scott Adams, the creator and writer of the Dilbert cartoons, suffered from a vocal disorder\u2014<i>spasmodic dysphonia<\/i>. With this rare disorder, a certain section of the brain simply shuts down, paralyzing the ability to speak with much command or volume. Think of it as a more permanent case of laryngitis.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Oddly enough, the condition is situational. For example, Adams could speak quite well when using his public speaking voice, but his more conversational, everyday voice eluded him.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Adams wrote on his personal website about how frustrating the condition was. He desperately wanted his normal voice back. One day he finally had a breakthrough. While helping his child with a simple homework assignment, Scott found that he could speak perfectly when using a rhyme scheme. He could say, \u201cJack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick\u201d with very little difficulty. As he noted on his website, it was \u201cjust different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>What is amazing is that Adams\u2019s regular voice returned as well. He likened the healing to starting up a car on a cold winter night\u2014the words of the poem awakened a sleeping section of his brain, and his normal voice suddenly emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In a similar way, the living Word can awaken and transform a heart that has been spiritually dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Brian Lowery, \u201cDilbert Creator Healed of Mysterious Illness\u201d; source: \u201cGood News Day,\u201d dilbertblog.typepad.com (October 24, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Adversity; Body; Crisis; Disease; Healing; Health; Illness; Miracles; Overcoming; Power; Struggles; Testing References: Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 103:3; 145:8\u20139; Isaiah 64:3; Romans 10:8\u201313; James 1:2\u20134 Scott Adams, the creator and writer of the Dilbert cartoons, suffered from a vocal disorder\u2014spasmodic dysphonia. 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