In July 2020, when six year old Bridger Walker saw his younger sister was about to be attacked by a German Shepherd, he didn’t wait to react — he got between her and the dog and took the attack himself. His reason was simple: “If someone had to die, I thought it should be me.”
He survived the attack, which required 90 stitches to close the wounds he suffered.
Today, a year later, his face is still scarred. In an interview with People, Bridger’s father says he asked Bridger if he wants the scars to go away.
The boy’s response: “I don’t want it to go all the way away.” Bridger views his scar as something to be proud of. And they remind him that his sister is still alive.
The article doesn’t say, but I wonder what the sister thinks when she see the scars. She may have been too young to fully grasp what happened at the time, but in the years to come they will certainly serve to remind her of her brother’s sacrificial love, just as the wounds of Christ remind us of his sacrificial death for us.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5)