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. (Continued on page 27) 23