TheGraceThatSaves...TheGTS

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction . ~ John F Kennedy

--- Ray Blankenship looked out his window one morning to see a little girl being swept along in a rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his home. He knew that further downstream the ditch disappeared underneath the road and emptied into the main culvert. Nobody could survive that!

--- He raced along the side of the ditch trying to get ahead of the child. Finally, he hurled himself into the water. When he surfaced, he was able to grab her. The two tumbled head-over-heals, and then within three feet of the culvert, Ray's free hand felt something protruding from the bank - a tree limb! He clung to it desperately while the force of the water kept trying to tear him and the child away. Amazingly, by the time the fire department arrived, Ray had pulled her to safety.

--- As both were being treated for shock, it was discovered just how much of a hero Ray was: Ray Blankenship couldn't swim!

--- Today, let your courage respond to the needs you see, not the fear you feel. Go ahead, take that risk. Reach out and meet that need. Walk through that door of opportunity. Step over your fear. God is just waiting for you to do what you can, then He'll do for you what you can't. But nothing happens until you make that first move!

Posted from SELAH