Monday, January 11, 2016

Monday:  January 11
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Scripture verse for today:
.... "In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus."       I Thessalonians  5:18
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During his high school years, comedian Tim Conway suffered a back injury during a football game that left him unable to talk or move.  When he couldn’t stand up, his team members carried him off the field.  A doctor took an X-ray, found nothing broken, and put him in a neck brace for a few weeks.
Many years later, Conway visited a doctor due to back spasms.  As he writes in his memoir What’s So Funny, he was shocked when the doctor told him his “spasms were a residual effect stemming from a broken vertebra.”  Conway insisted he’d never broken a vertebra, then recalled the football incident. 
The doctor explained that he’d likely broken his vertebra, but when his teammates picked him up, his back got stretched out and the vertebra went back into place.  If Conway hadn’t been moved, he may have been permanently disabled. 

That was a watershed moment for Conway, spiritually speaking.  He writes, “Ever since that incident on the football field, which might have altered the course of my life, Jesus and I have stayed in constant touch.  I never stop saying thank you.”
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