Thank you to Cathy Harvey, Administrative Assistant, for writing today's blog.
As winter crept in, I
stole a few hours to soak up a new read, a biography of an amazing man who has
lived without arms or legs. You may have
heard of him or seen his unique videos.
Google “Nick Vujicic” and he’ll pop right up. His name is as unique as his capabilities,
but if you can’t remember his name, simply Google “man without arms and legs”
and my guess is it will be hard to stop reading his website or hard not to
click into numerous photos, videos, and testimonies that he has posted.
His book Love Without Limits is his seventh
inspiring book in which he explains “it doesn’t take a perfect person to find a
perfect love.” This native born
Australian with a Serbian name is incredibly optimistic and answers hard
questions about how he lives, how he overcame depression and bullying, how to
live above circumstances and how, as he says, to live a “ridiculously good life”
even without limbs. His books are filled
with practical advice and common sense while offering snippets of his world
speaking tours, the company and ministry he has started, and godly people he
has met along the way.
Book seven, however,
tackles yet another astounding aspect of his life—his marriage to a beautiful
Mexican-Japanese woman named Kanae! This
is a page turner from page one. Even
without reading his previous books, the reader still learns much about his life
and how he came to Christ. As one can
imagine, he did not think he would ever find someone who would ever feel
compelled to marry him, a man without arms and legs. There was no medical reason for his unusual
birth, and he has only met less than 30 other people like himself in the world. BUT GOD, in His sovereign plan, wove his life
with another’s even though they lived an ocean apart. He is very clear from the
beginning, that even without arms and legs he had a desire to find love, give
love, and be loved just like everyone else.
He is candid about what a romantic comedy his dating years made!
Page after page he
answers all the questions that pop into one’s head about how he functions in
day to day needs. The book toggles
between telling his life story and hearing the love story from his and his wife’s
perspectives. Both Mr. & Mrs. add
practical Biblical wisdom to the pitfalls and temptation of dating, loving,
marrying, and having children. As the tagline to the book reads, this is
certainly “a remarkable story of true love conquering all”!
I do not want to give too
much away or steal the awe you will feel as you read their amazing story and
see how they conquered one challenge after another. Even if you’ve been too busy to read lately, I
highly recommend you check out Love
Without Limits at your local library, and be encouraged by someone who had
every reason to be discouraged, but
is not!
Life Without Limits
Nick Vujicic with Kanae
Vujicic
Published by WaterBrook
Press, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-60142-617-8
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