Intro to Our Determination in Difficult Times, Part 1 (TMF:723)

Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Peace to Live By: Intro to Our Determination in Difficult Times, Part 1 (TMF:723) - Daniel Litton
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       Just outside of Maine is Campobello Island, a Canadian island, which, sometime ago, in a different time, Franklin D. Roosevelt would frequent during the Summer time. He was spending time at the family’s rather large cottage, trying to get-in some time of recreation and rest in the August of 1921. After a day full of activity, Franklin took on a fever, and his legs weren’t feeling quite right. It took sometime for a doctor to finally figure out what was wrong with him. And as most of us know, he was diagnosed with Polio. There was no cure. Franklin would live the rest of his life with the inability to really use his legs as God had created them to be used. For a brief time, he questioned why God had allowed this to happen to him. And after regaining his faith, he realized that he must press forward. He knew he had to live, and never give up. It reminds me, from time to time, that there is no excuse for giving up. If Franklin Roosevelt could live as well as he did with what should have been a great and career-ending disability, then we have no excuse—those of us of face smaller obstacles in life.