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...
“The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: Giving thanks for everything.” Dr. Albert Schweitzer 1991 – Auburn...
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...
1888 – Stockholm Sweden: As was his custom, Alfred Nobel read his newspaper, The Social Demokraten, while eating breakfast. The front-page story, “The Merchant of Death is Dead,” drew his attention. It began, “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill...
Summer 2011 – Radford, Virginia: Josh received the admissions letter from Radford University physics department chairman Dr. Rhett Herman with the news he would not be able to enroll in physics. Josh had never taken high school trigonometry, a prerequisite for a...
2003 – London, England: Rosalind Savage was divorced, overweight and out of shape. She had spent the past 11 years working in a cubicle for a London computer company and hated her job and miserable life. One day at work she wrote two obituaries. The first one about...
