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Key Bible Verse: Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God (Psalm 42:5).
Bonus Reading: Psalm 23

Tom Cook was riding his bicycle to college one day when a car ran a stop sign and struck him. After three months in the hospital, the doctors' verdict: "You'll never walk again."

Confined to a wheelchair and paralyzed from the waist down, Tom says "I was angry at God. I felt He'd abandoned me." Then he met quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada. She helped Tom see how a merciful God uses brokenness to bring even greater glory and good. After five years of rage, Tom recommitted his life to the Lord.

About then, a friend let Tom drive his race car around a parking lot. "I didn't tell him I could barely move my toes," Tom grins. After one halting lap, Tom was hooked. While learning to walk again with the aid of a radical new steel-and-plastic leg brace, he went to performance driving school.

Today Tom's an associate pastor who also races a sleek red formula "Solo Vee" car. He found it languishing in a friend's backyard. Tom spent two years rebuilding it from the ground up. "That little race car and I had a lot in common—we were both rusted and busted—and just needed a little encouragement."

—Mark Byers in The Standard

—Eugene O'Neill (dramatist, 20th century)

Adapted from: The Standard (4/99).

Prayer for the Week

Thank you, Jesus, for being there when I fall.

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