His Heart Scribe Inspirations Devotional Magazine July - August 2014 Volume lll Number 5 July-August 2014 | Page 23

July - August 2014 ~

HOPE OF ISRAEL . . . JEREMIAH 17:5-8, 13
PRAYING TO MIQWEH YISRAEL . . .

The very next day,
flowers appeared in Andy's
room, and in the middle of
the flowers sat a pack of Titleist Pro V1 balls. Andy
was astonished.

Struck by a car while
riding his motorcycle, Andy
DeVries landed in the hospital, where physicians told
him he had broken his leg.
The news was grim, because
Andy's leg was not merely
broken but shattered. It
might have to be amputated.

Sarah's gesture took
him by surprise and helped
him to stop thinking about
how sorry he should feel for
himself. Instead, as he said,
it brought a glimmer of
hope. For the first time, he
began to believe that life
could be good even with only one leg.

One day, prior to surgery, a physician's assistant
by the name of Sarah
School asked Andy a surprising question. "Andy,
what kind of golf ball do
you play?"

Then came the surgery. Remarkably, instead
of taking the leg midthigh
as he thought he might
have to, the surgeon noted
a little bit of blood flow and
left the leg intact. But Andy
wasn't out of the woods yet.

To a man lying in bed
contemplating the loss of a
leg, her question seemed
insensitive, but Andy managed a reply. "I like Titleist's Pro V1 ball," he told
her.

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