Saturday, July 4, 2009

Overcoming adversity

I was reading a magazing when I came across an article on a woman named Aimee Mullins. She was born without fibula bones in her legs, so she had her legs amputated below her knees when she was an infant. Some people look on Mullins's condition as a disadvantage; I even saw it as a disadvantage when I first read the article. But by obtaining a few sets of prosthetic legs, Mullins's went on to become a world-record-breaking athlete (she is a runner), an actress, a fashion model, an intelligence analyst at the Pentagon, and a motivational speaker!

Intrigued by her success, I searched a video of one of her speeches online. She was talking about how the doctor who delivered her had told her parents that she would never be able to walk, let alone run like she does. That man found her in a supermarket a couple of decades later and told Mullins how she had proved him a liar over and over for accomplishing so much after he gave that awful prognosis to her parents.

I just found it amazing and inspirational how Mullins was able to overcome so much adversity in her life in order to accomplish the things she wanted to accomplish. This just shows how between your willpower and God's willpower, anything can be done! Everyone's life is full of setbacks, but we can overcome them!

~Mark 10:27--For all things are possible with God~

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