NEVER GIVE UP!

This is the true story about a man named Lyle Bert, aged 64. Mr. Bert has a bachelor's and a master's degree, and currently hosts "The Lyle Bert Show", in Portales, New Mexico. He is truly an inspiration to us all! There is a lot more information than what I am sharing here, but the main gist of the article shares how Mr. Bert was in an accident in 1965, while he was handling a homemade rocket that exploded. He says: "I lost both hands, the eyesight in both eyes... My jaw was broken.... My face and lips were burned. I had 124 penetration wounds in my chest and abdomen. I almost lost my right leg.... Pieces of device went through my leg and through my abdomen. They amputated my hands... and I lost two-thirds of my stomach." While speaking to the Conference on the Handicapped a few years ago (in Santa Fé, New Mexico), Lyle Bert shared something so insightful and inspirational, I just have to share it with you! "A person who has no legs can still achieve great heights; A person who has no hands can still grasp an idea; A person who has no sight can still have great vision; And a person who can't move can still lead." Paul writes: "...but He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’ I will all the more gladly boast of my weak-nesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:9b,10). May each of us look beyond our "limitations" and see what God can do through us! Article in The Denver Post, Friday, May 5, 2000 written by Linda Usrey Long from the Portales News-Tribune