[Faith-talk] All things working together for good

[Ericka]

Thanks for your story David.

Ericka Short
1750 Fordem Ave. #508
Madison. WI. 53704
608-665-3170

 from my iPhone 6s

> On Aug 28, 2016, at 4:41 PM, David Moore via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Even as a child, before I became a Christian, I prayed and had faith that God would get me out of the country where I could not be independent. One day, Someone from Columbus, the Capitol of my state of Ohio called the regular public school I was in and asked them if they had someone disabled at their school. The state rehab was just calling public schools at random, they said. Well, my school in the country told them about me. Someone came up to my little town and really got on the school to pay for cane mobility lessons for me, and my good grades allowed the state to pay my tuition to go to The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. While at Ohio State, I learned about every kind of assistive technology out there. My professors did not know how to teach me, so I prayed again, not a Christian yet, and the NFB Stepped in because I was talking to a blind person on campus. He was a member totally by accident, or was it? The NFB worked with my professors, and The NFB sent me to a training center where I was traveling around a large city by myself, I was cooking all of my meals, using the latest technology out there like the Optacon. This was in the 80s, and the Optacon was like no other technology invented. I became a Christian, I had many many people cross my path at Ohio State who helped me see the full truth of the Bible so I could obey the saving message of Jesus and come to him and have my sins washed clean. People constantly told me that I was like everyone else, and I was not like any other blind person they ever met. I received my degree in Mathematics. When I was little, and my parents told me I would have to live with them the rest of my life, I always thought about how I can do math in my head, and that might get me somewhere, but I had no idea how. So, here I am with a BS in mathematics, and nobody would hier me. I just happened to meet someone in a restaurant with a math tutoring business for the blind. I tutored there for a few years, and then I started my own business of tutoring mathematics with the help of people that came out of no where. Keep in mind, that I had developed a very strong one on one, intimate relationship with Jesus, where he talked to me, and I talked with him. I would get on my knees every night about a wife. Well, listen to this. I played a bible trivia show on the radio. A hoast asked Bible questions, and people could call in and answer them. Well, one night, Traci, my feuture wife, could not sleep, and she began turning the radio dile. She heard my voice of me calling into this show, and she stopped turning the dial, because she really thought my voice was special and that I might be the Christian husband she had been looking for for years. Well, she had no idea where I was located, or how she would get a hold of me. Three months later, her car broke down, and she had to ride the Columbus public bus for the first time in her life. She had to ride the bus clear to the other end of town where I lived. Well, I was with a friend, and we let two buses go by, because he wanted to finish his coffee. We got on the third bus, and that was the bus Traci was on clear on the other end of the city from where she lived. She heard my voice as I talked with my friend, and she knew that I was the guy from the radio. She moved across from me, and she asked me if I was David from the radio show. I was, of course, and she had just moved, and she did not have a phone yet. I gave her my phone number not expecting her to call, because no women did who I gave my number to. She did call, and we talked for 9 hours the first time we talked. We were married in four years. She is sighted, is a great driver, she totally forgets that I am blind and hands me stuff to read LOL! She sees me as a real man who can provide for her and keep her safe. Again, her name is Traci, and her relationship with Jesus is as strong or stronger than mine. The Lord has allowed us to be taken through trials that you cannot imagine, and the Lord has gotten us through them all. We have been able to encourage more and more people through our faith. Her father died right before we were married, Her nephew killed himself at 22, I had panic attacks and bad OCD for the first 7 years of our marriage, and now, I am totally healed, and on and on. We have trials everyday, and Jesus gets us through all of them., and people walk up to Traci and I, total strangers, and tell us that they see real peace in us. We have helped so many people because of what we have been through. I have so many sighted friends who never bring up my blindness, because they forget about it. I run around the city, some days, without a cane. It is as though my feet know where to step. I can walk into a strange building, and find my way, almost like I have been there before. Jesus and I talk everyday, and I ask him to show me the purpose he has for my life everyday. I hope this encourages every blind person out there, because I am human proof that your blindness does not have to stop you from living a total normal life. I have a MA in mathematics education, and my academic advisor thought I could not get through the program. I have proven everyone wrong about what they thought I could not do. The Lord has caused me and has given me his power to do the impossible. You and every blind person out there can have the same quality of life. I love being blind. I really love it, because it hasn't stopped me in any way, and I can encourage so many people just by walking down the street and talking to them. So many people have been incouraged by my blindness. God has been able to use me much more being blind, than if I was sighted. God bless, all,
> David Moore
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> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Outman via Faith-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 4:27 PM
> To: 'Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion'
> Cc: Bill Outman
> Subject: [Faith-talk] All things working together for good
> 
> Good afternoon.
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> On this date of 8/28 what came to my mind was Romans 8:28.  We are told in
> this verse that all things work together for good for those of us who are
> called by Christ's purpose.
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> It can sometimes be difficult for us to see how this can be, especially
> given some of the obstacles we encounter as people who are blind or visually
> impaired.
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> What might be interesting would be stories of how our faith resulted in
> something working out for good in our lives that was unexpected because of
> it, and that might not otherwise have taken place.  I don't have one that
> immediately jumps to mind, thought I would like to hear the inspirations of
> others in this regard, and then I might be able to insert something that
> fits.
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> Bill Outman
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