“How it is, isn’t how it has to be – it is simply how it is right now. Your possibilities are as limitless as your dreams.” James Richardson 1985 – Pensacola, Florida: At midnight, 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber sat alone in the bus...
“The biggest lesson I ever learned was while drifting on a raft in the South Pacific for 24 days with my buddies. If you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.” Eddie...
October 1970 – Gadsden, Alabama: Gordon Mote’s parents were determined that blindness would not keep him, or his brother Michael, also born blind, from having a normal childhood. At Thanksgiving when he was three, Gordon sat down at his grandmother’s piano and...
June 16, 1995 – St. Louis, Missouri: Cardinals baseball team manager Joe Torre was at home when he got a call from team General Manager Walt Jocketty saying he was on his way to Torre’s house. Torre told his wife, Ali, “I think we’re getting fired here.” After five...
March 17, 1982 – New Orleans, Louisiana: Marilyn Caro left her 2-year-old son Dan on the porch while she mowed the grass. Focused on her task, she didn’t notice him wander into the garage. Dan turned over the lawnmower gas and when the hot water heater ignited the...
1951 – Seattle, Washington: Frank Peretti was born with cystic hygroma, which caused his tongue to be a black, tumorous growth protruding from his mouth. Doctors at Seattle’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital trimmed his tongue for the first time when he was three months...
