Read this story, and it inspired me
Seems it was published again here:http://www.insightmagazine.org/cover/index.asp?issueID=20081625
COURAGE
One summer morning as Ray Blankenship was preparing his breakfast, he gazed out the window, and saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Andover, Ohio, home. Blankenship knew that farther downstream, the ditch disappeared with a roar underneath a road and then emptied into the main culvert. Ray dashed out the door and raced along the ditch, trying to get ahead of the foundering child. Then he hurled himself into the deep, churning water. Blankenship surfaced and was able to grab the child’s arm. They tumbled end over end. Within about three feet of the yawning culvert, Ray’s free hand felt something–possibly a rock– protruding from one bank. He clung desperately, but the tremendous force of the water tried to tear him and the child away. “If I can just hang on until help comes,” he thought. He did better than that. By the time fire-department rescuers arrived, Blankenship had pulled the girl to safety. Both were treated for shock. On April 12, 1989, Ray Blankenship was awarded the Coast Guard’s Silver Lifesaving Medal. The award is fitting, for this selfless person was at even greater risk to himself than most people knew. Ray Blankenship can’t swim.
Paul Harvey, Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
God calls us to be strong and of good courage.
Let’s Pray for exactly that:
‘Father, grant us strength and courage to serve You and to glorify Your name in heroic acts of kindness and love. I ask this, knowing I am heard and answered, for I ask in Your name Lord Jesus, Amen.
https://www.chrisaomministries.com/2016/08/06/the-purpose-of-this-blog/
