Success consists in the overcoming of difficulties. All men and women who have made a success of any kind have done so by overcoming difficulties. There was a time when laying a telegraph line from New York to Boston presented many difficulties. Then there was a time when doing that was easy, but laying the Atlantic cable presented difficulties. Later on, marine cable laying became a routine business, but radio across the ocean presented problems that for a time were insuperable.
If you have a personal disability that seems to keep you from success, do not accept it as such, but capitalize on it and use it as the instrument for your success. H. G. Wells had to give up a dull underpaid job because of ill health, so he stayed at home and wrote successful books and became a world-known author instead. Edison was stone deaf and decided that this would enable him to concentrate better on his inventions. Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, very shortsighted and nervous. However, he worked hard to develop his body and became, as we know, a strong husky open-air man and big game hunter.
The owner of a fashionable dress business in London was the wife of a struggling clerk, who was stricken with tuberculosis. She had never been in business, and had no training, and found herself having to support a husband and two children. She started with nothing but good taste in clothes and a belief in prayer.
… To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life (Revelation 2:7).
Whatever is holding us down, keeping us from our god-given purpose or robbing us of our peace can be turned into a springboard by which we catapult ourselves over any obstacle. When we honestly face a disability of body, m ind or spirit and ask God to help us overcome it, he will turn our frailty into our glory and use it to crown us with success.
A paraplegic friend of the author has been using a wheel chair for decades. Yet from that chair, this person has risen in spirit and action to dramatically improve the entire landscape for persons with disabilities. From that chair one person has risen to answer God’s call to become a nationally recognized voice for all people with disabilities. May we all face and use our challenges with such grace and power. When we do, God will enable us to over come them and turn them into mighty blessings.
Being enabled,
Z gardener
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