With determination, persistence and patience the impossible can become possible!
The impossible can be achieved with the spirit of determination! There are no hopeless situations. There are only men and women who have grown hopeless about them. The story you are about to read is such an inspirational piece taken from the ‘Word for Today.’
David Rabin was a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. When he was forty-six he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He knew what would happen. Stiffness in the legs; then weakness, paralysis of the lower limbs, and then the upper. Eventually his body would no longer obey his commands. He could form words only with the greatest difficulty, and eventually not at all. He lost his ability to treat patients and could no longer go to the hospital to work.
He would have had a brilliant academic career; now he couldn’t even turn the pages of a book. But there was one thing he would not surrender: his spirit! One day he heard from a fellow physician who also had Lou Gehrig’s disease, about a computer that could be operated by a single switch. That switch could be operated by anyone, however physically challenged, who retained the function of just one muscle group. David Rabin still had enough strength in one part of his body; his eyebrow.
So for the next four years he used it to speak to his family, tell jokes, write papers and review manuscripts. He carried on a medical consulting practice. He taught medical students. He published a comprehensive textbook on endocrinology and achieved a prestigious award for his work. And he did it with only one thing he could control, a single eyebrow.
What does the word ‘determination’ mean to you?
There is no limit to what we can achieve if we are determined and positive-minded. Never ever give up on what you really want to do or achieve.
Lesson: no matter what you are passing through keep a positive attitude; there is always a way out if you don’t give up.
