Be strong and courageous.Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV
Roger Crawford is a successful author who speaks to Fortune 500 companies, travels worldwide as a consultant and is a professional tennis player. Not impressed? Would you be if you knew he has no hands and only one foot?
When he was born doctors said Roger Crawford would never be able to walk or take care of himself. But Roger’s parents disagreed. They sent him to regular schools, involved him in sports and taught him to think positively. “They never allowed me to feel sorry for myself, or take advantage of my handicap,” he says.
One day he got a call from a man who’d read about him. When the two met they discovered they had identical handicaps. Roger got excited, thinking perhaps he’d found someone older who might act as his mentor. He was wrong! “Instead,” he says, “I found someone bitter, who blamed all his disappointments on his body. He couldn’t hold a job. He blamed that on discrimination, and not (as he admitted) on his constantly being late, absent and failing to take responsibility. His attitude was, ‘The world owes me.’ The problem was the world disagreed! He was actually angry with me because I didn’t share his despair. We kept in touch until I finally realised that even if some miracle were suddenly to give him a perfect body, his life wouldn’t change much because – he was more the prisoner of his attitude, than of his circumstances.”
Roger Crawford’s philosophy is worth living by: Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. The real limitations are in our minds, not our bodies.
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