Adversity Helps our Character Grow
Before I post my article for this evening, I want to let you know that the promotion for the five autographed books has ended for this week. The five winners will be notified and hopefully I will get the books to them in time for Christmas, if they want them to be used for gifts.
Thank you for the great response. That shows me we need to do this once a week until I run out of books.
I will be starting another giveaway this Friday night through Monday evening like I did this week.
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I just got through having a wonderful discussion with a man named Henry Newell. I was minding my own business. (Hard for me to do,) when he contacted me through the IM service at Facebook.
I was sharing back and forth with him, when he dropped a bomb on me. He is a quadriplegic. He was in a diving accident when he was 14 years old. He was told he wasn’t going to live, and if he did he would be a vegetable. He is still here to tell his story.
Henry is a born again Christian that would put an average Christian to shame. His outlook on everything in live is incredible. He is such a positive person.
I want to invite you to read his story on the blog: http//:www.dailysignsofhope.com. This blog is run by myself and Michael Clark.
We have been in the trenches, and we write articles there that reach out to the people who suffer from anxiety, fear, self doubt, depression, addictions, hopelessness, and the many other usual suspects.
Henry’s post will be in a couple of weeks. We have guest bloggers on every Sunday. We are backed up a little right now.
I will let you know here when he will be blogging, but why don’t check out the blog and bookmark it like 300 other people have in the first month of its existence.
Why should someone like Henry be so positive. It looks like life gave him a lemon. I can’t speak for him. He will be doing that himself, but I know why I am so positive after six major surgeries. It is because God has allowed me to have them! God has a plan for me. He had one before I was born. I now know that I am to reach out to people who suffer from the many mental afflictions we face when adversity strikes us.
I was near death at one point, but I am still alive, and thanking God each day. I seek His will daily and strive to meet His will with every breath I take that He has given me.
During this Christmas time, don’t spend your time feeling sorry for yourself, by moaning and groaning. Remember the reason for the season. They was a little child that was born on Christmas Day. He was a very poor child. They laid him in a manger. Webster’s Dictionary says a manger is, ” A place where livestock eat.” Little Jesus laid in a filthy manger, and didn’t even have nice cloths to wear. He slept among the animals in the barn.
Now think of all the things that God has given you. A family, food, a home, friends, good health.
I know some of you do not have those things I listed, but be thankful that God has given you another breath. Each one may be the last.
So, put away your Bah Humbug costume, and be a light shining in the dark for others that are less fortunate.
May God bless you during the Christmas season and beyond.