... he set his sights on the Ironman Triathlon, the most challenging athletic competition on earth. Amazingly, while training for this triathlon, Jim was hit a second time. He awoke in the hospital to the news that he was paralyzed from the neck ... perfect. 1. "Why Me?" by Elizabeth Gilbert, originally published in GQ, Reader's Digest, February 2003, pp.117-121. 2. By Sheila Walsh, "Staying Alive," Leadership, Summer 2002, p. 52. 3. "The Up Side," Guideposts, July 2001, p.8. 4. Gerald Sittser, A Grace Disguised ( ...
... complaining can be justified, sometimes it cannot. There is a scene in the movie Bruce Almighty in which the character played by Jim Carrey is complaining that God is making him late for work because of a traffic accident. As he voices his bitterness, he ... fall in place. We may walk through the valley, as did Job. But we know we do not walk alone. 1. Sheila Walsh. The Desert Experience (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), pp. 182-183. 2. Dr. William P. Barker, Tarbell's (Elgin, Illinois: David C. ...
