“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.” ~ Winston Churchill
The human experience deals with every human being the impossible at different points throughout their life. We are our own worse critics, coupled with society and even the people who love us the most. Our shortcomings, along with our physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual limitations, make it evident to the human eye and experience that certain feats and milestones are impossible for us to reach. The impossible is only a reality when defeated by twisted perceptions, negative influences, stinking thinking, delusional thoughts, and a rotten attitude. If you don’t believe this is true, ask Walker Smallwood.
Walker Smallwood is an incredible young man who faced the impossible. Walker is seventeen years old and lives in Edgewood, Kentucky. Like so many youngsters, Walker loved to play baseball and dreamed of playing in the pros one day. Unfortunately, life handed Walker an impossible situation, bone cancer, which formed in his left leg. Since 2018 he has undergone six surgeries, six chemotherapy cycles, 24 treatments, and 18 hospital stays. His dreams of playing baseball at any level halted until the impossible became possible.
His left leg became too fragile for him to play, so he resigned himself to games of catch. But before stepping off the mound for good, his parents and coach recently decided to let Smallwood start one last game for old time’s sake.
The first pitch he threw was a strike, and he would go on to throw a no-hitter and strike out all but two batters, an incredible demonstration of the impossible becoming possible.
“When the last strike came, I was just in denial all over again. I was like that didn’t just happen,” Walker said.
There were tears of joy and looks of disbelief on everyone in attendance. They were witnessing a miracle right before their eyes.
Smallwood may never play again — the risk of injury is too significant, the leg is too weak. He’s okay with that now because who needs a World Series ring when you have experienced God’s grace and have God dwelling deep down inside of you? The impossible became possible for the whole world to see.
What impossible situation are you facing? What needs to change in your attitude, thinking, and faith for the power of the Holy Spirit to prevail? God will move mountains for you, but you will need to bring along your shovel. Walker persevered, he hung on to his dream, picked up his glove and baseball, took the mound, and God intervened. The crowd witnessed a burning bush pitch a no-hitter while the world was watching. Miracles like Walker’s happened all around the globe daily and are available to each of us when we are rightly related to God and we work for them.
Lord, thank you for the life of Walker Smallwood. Your power and glory shine through his life and miraculous accomplishments. Please help me adopt the same attitude, thinking, and faith that this young man has been able to muster. Remove from me all the twisted perceptions, negative influences, stinking thinking, delusional thoughts, and any rotten attitudes that hinder Your ability to achieve the impossible through my life for the world to witness and for Your glory. In Your Spirit and Name, I pray these things. May Your will not mine always materialize, now and forever. Amen.
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