5 highlights from Wes Huff's interview with Shawn Ryan about suffering, giants and Dead Sea Scrolls

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, February 14, 2026

1. 'We can trust Him'

Huff said he became acutely aware of supernatural power at 11 years old when he inexplicably overcame acute transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition that leads to paralysis and is caused by an inflammation of the spinal cord when the body attacks itself in response to an infection.

Huff, who noted he vividly remembers when he "woke up from a nap and couldn't feel [his] legs" after a bout of the flu shortly before his 12th birthday, said he repeatedly cried himself to sleep. He described himself as a child who was healthy and athletic one day before being told the next that he would never walk again.

The doctors who predicted he would live his life as a paraplegic were flummoxed when he got out of his bed and walked over to his wheelchair exactly one month after his grim prognosis.

"I don't know how long it was that I sat in my wheelchair until I realized what I'd done, but I knew something was different," he said. "It could have been five minutes, could have been 45 minutes. I couldn't actually tell you how long it was. But eventually, I looked down and I wiggled my toe, and that kind of broke me out of the spell."

He said he subsequently "ran upstairs" to his parents after regaining control of his lower body.

"It was the doctors that first used the word 'miracle,'" Huff said. "I think my parents are very hesitant to use that word, but the medical professionals were the ones who said, 'We really don't have an explanation,' because the inflammation was gone, there was no evidence of it."

Huff said his brief brush with potential lifelong paralysis pushed his parents, who had been accepting their reality of having a disabled son, to rely on God and trust Him amid their son's suffering, even if He chose not to lift it.

"I think my parents' prayer at the time was always that God would be glorified in this situation," Huff said. "Not necessarily that I would be healed — not that they were against something miraculous happening — but I think their perspective was, 'God is in control, and we can trust Him, even when things aren't going the way we plan, or even the way we understand.'"

Huff maintained that the brokenness and pain he experienced as a boy prepared him for when he later wrestled with questions about God, which ultimately led to his present work. He said his childhood "supernatural experience," which confounded even medical experts, helped him "to connect the dots between my heart and my head" to understand that the Lord is real and can intervene.

"I can assign it to an actual individual in this case, right?" he said. "God, who operates in time and space and history and does things out of the ordinary."