"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Winston Churchill

Cripple him and you have a Sir Walter Scott, lock him in a prison cell and you have a John Bunyun. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge and you have a George Washington. Land him in poverty and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Subject him to bitter religious strife and you have a Disraeli. Strike him with Infantile Paralysis and you have Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only President of the United States to be elected to four terms of office. Burn him so severely in a schoolhouse fire that the doctors say he will never walk and you have a Glenn Cunningham, who set a world record in 1934 for running the mile in 4 minutes 6.7 seconds. Deafen a genius composer who continues to compose some of the world's most beautiful music and you have a Beethoven. Drag him more dead than a1ive out of a rice paddy in Vietnam and you have a Rocky Blaier, that beautiful running back for the Pittsburg Steelers. Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination and you have a Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King Jr. Have him born of parents who survived a Nazi concentration camp, paralyze him from the waist down at the age of four, and you have Isaac Perlman, the Incomparable violinist. Call him ‘retarded’ and write him off as ‘uneducatable’ and you have Albert Einstein. Amputate the cancer-ridden leg of a young Canadian and you have Terry Fox, who vowed to raise a million dollars by running across Canada with an artificial leg. Terry was forced to stop when the cancer spread to his hip, and took his own life several months later, but his spirit lives on. After losing both legs in an airplane crash, let an RAF fighter pilot fly, and you have World War II ace, Douglas Bader, who was captured by the Germans three times and escaped three times on two artificial limbs. Label him too stupid to learn, and you have a Thomas Edison. Label him a hopeless alcoholic, and you have Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Tell her she is too old to start painting at 80 and you have a Grandma Moses. Blind him at age 44, and you have John Milton, who 10 years later wrote Paradise Lost. Call him dull, hopeless and flunk him in the 6th grade, and you have Winston Churchill. Tell a young boy who loved to draw and sketch that he had no talent, and you have Walt Disney. Rate him mediocre in chemistry and you have Louis Pasteur. Take a crippled child whose only home was an orphanage, and you have Louis E. West, who became the first chief executive of Boy Scouts of America. Spit on him, humiliate him, betray his trust, say one thing and do another. Mistrust those whom he loves. Mock him, make him carry a heavy wooden cross, and crucify him and he forgives you and calls you a friend.

Thanks Orrin Woodward for the Team system which empowers us to grab a hold of life instead of letting life grab a hold of us.  More of us need to stop telling our God how big our problems are and start telling our problems how big our God is!