Also in the 3rd Serving. A man surpassed the amateur national and international records for pole vaulting considering he's blind. There was a man who met 2 accidents within 4 years. The first one burned 70% of his body. The second one turned him into a quadruplegic. But you would admire his fighting spirit since inspite of them, he ran for office under the slogan 'Not just another pretty face.' I remember what he said, 'Before I could do 10,000 things. Now I could do 9,000. It's not so bad.' I likewise remember an article from this book where the man had an accident which turned him into a quadriplegic. I would distinctly remember what his mother said to him upon her visit to the hospital: ‘The difficult takes time. The impossible takes a little longer.’. That has become his mantra and he accomplished a lot.
Or the book entitled ‘Hope Grows in Winter’ where a Pastor acquired a mysterious disease which turned out to be AIDS. Upon contemplating how he got the disease, he remembered where he tried to save people from an accident and suffered a cut in the process. It turned out that the people he was trying to save were drug addicts who were dead. But he ended the article with Hope. I learned from reading that book that Hope is a Noun.
There was also an article about the designers of the Bronx Bridge (I think) whose father and son both met an accident and left the son with only his eyelids moving. Of course people would think that the project was doomed. But thru blinking the son was able to communicate and the bridge eventually built. A similar article was sent by my sister. This time the victim can only blink an eyelid but he was able to make that article. I also remember what Stephen Covey said, 90% of things you can control, 10% of things you cannot control. He was referring mainly to man’s temper. But I thought prayerwise, you usually pray for things you cannot control, while you make promises to God for things you can control.
I'm not trying to sell books here. I just want to share with all of you the things I learned.
Thanks Gladys for the appreciation.