The May 2009 Readers Digest has a lengthy article titled, "Bounce Back From Anything". The story I share with you is from Bob Williamson, 62, living in Florida. In 1970 at age twenty-four he was a drug addict and wanted by the police. His belongings were all contained in a pillowcase. He had decided to commit suicide or straighten his life out. He landed a job in Atlanta cleaning bricks. He moved from the "Y" to a boarding-house. Things were looking better until he was in a head-on collision that hospitalized him for three months. During that stay he began reading the Bible. He read all of it. It began to change him. When he got out of the hospital he met a wonderful woman. They married six months later and have been married for thirty-eight years. Bob became a successful businessman and recently sold his software company for 75 million dollars! Read what he had to say about it all: "I don't believe in coincidence or luck. I believe in God. And if there's a lesson I learned from this, it's that God seems to show His strength and power through weakness. I think he picks the down-and-out on purpose to demonstrate what's possible...He doesn't just bless you and heap on millions. Rather, God shows you the way and supplies the opportunities. Then it's up to you to set the goals, devise the strategy, and most important, provide the man-hours...." Readers Digest, May 2009, p95-96.
We never should give up on ourselves, or more importantly, God!
