No Arm, No Leg No Worries

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Nick Vujicic
My name is Nick Vujicic and I
give God the Glory for how He
has used my testimony to touch
thousands of hearts around the
world! I was born without limbs
and doctors have no medical
explanation for this birth
"defect". As you can imagine, I
was faced with many challenges
and obstacles.
"Consider it pure joy, my Brothers,
whenever you face trials of many kinds."
To count our hurt, pain and struggle as nothing but pure joy?
As my parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of
our church, they knew that verse very well. However, on the
morning of the 4th of December 1982 in Melbourne
(Australia), the last two words on the minds of my parents was
"Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without
limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves
for it. The doctors were shocked and had no answers at all!
There is still no medical reason why this had happened and
Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any
other baby. The whole church mourned over my birth and my
parents were absolutely devastated. Everyone asked, "if God is
a God of Love, then why would God let something this bad
happen to not just anyone, but dedicated Christians?" My Dad
thought I wouldn't survive for very long, but tests proved that I
was a healthy baby boy just with a few limbs missing.
Understandably, my parents
had strong concern and
evident fears of what kind of
life I'd be able to lead. God
provided them strength,
wisdom and courage through
those early years and soon
after that I was old enough to
go to school. The law in
Australia didn't allow me to
be integrated into a main-
stream school because of my
physical disability. God did
miracles and gave my Mom
the strength to fight for the
law to be changed. I was one
of the first disabled students
to be integrated into a main-
stream school.
I liked going to school, and just try to
live life like everyone else, but it was
in my early years of school where I
encountered uncomfortable times of
feeling rejected, weird and bullied
because of my physical difference. It
was very hard for me to get used to,
but with the support of my parents, I
started to develop attitudes and values
which helped me overcome these
challenging times. I knew that I was
different but on the inside I was just
like everyone else. There were many
times when I felt so low that I wouldn't
go to school just so I didn't have to face
all the negative attention. I was
encouraged by my parents to ignore
them and to try start making friends by
just talking with some kids. Soon the
students realized that I was just like
them, and starting there God kept on
blessing me with new friends.
There were times when I felt depressed and angry because I
couldn't change the way I was, or blame anyone for that
matter. I went to Sunday School and learnt that God loves us
all and that He cares for you. I understood that love to a point
as a child, but I didn't understand that if God loved me why
did He make me like this? Is it because I did something
wrong? I thought I must have because out of all the kids at
school, I'm the only weird one. I felt like I was a burden to
those around me and the sooner I go, the better it'd be for
everyone. I wanted to end my pain and end my life at a young
age, but I am thankful once again, for my parents and family
who were always there to comfort me and give me strength.
Due to my emotional struggles I had experienced with
bullying, self esteem and loneliness, God has implanted a
passion of sharing my story and experiences to help others
cope with whatever challenge they have in their life and let
God turn it into a blessing. To encourage and inspire others to
live to their fullest potential and not let anything get in the way
of accomplishing their hopes and dreams. One of the first
lessons that I have learnt was not to take things for granted.
"And we know that in all things God works for the best for
those who love Him." That verse spoke to my heart and
convicted me to the point where that I know that there is no
such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these "bad"
things happen in our life. I had complete peace knowing that
God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless He has a
good purpose for it all. I completely gave my life to Christ at
the age of fifteen after reading John 9. Jesus said that the
reason the man was born blind was "so that the works of God
may be revealed through Him." I truly believed that God
would heal me so I could be a great testimony of His
Awesome Power. Later on I was given the wisdom to
understand that if we pray for something, if it's God's will, it'll
happen in His time. If it's not God's will for it to happen, then I
know that He has something better. I now see that Glory
revealed as He is using me just the way I am and in ways
others can't be used.
I am now twenty-one years
old and have completed a
Bachelor of Commerce
majoring in Financial
Planning and Accounting. I
am also a motivational
speaker and love to go out
and share my story and
testimony wherever
opportunities become
available. I have developed
talks to relate to and
encourage students through
topics that challenge today's
teenagers. I am also a speaker
in the corporate sector.
I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep
myself available for whatever God wants me to do,
and wherever He leads, I follow. I have many dreams
and goals that I have set to achieve in my life. I want
to become the best witness I can be of God's Love
and Hope, to become an international inspirational
speaker and be used as a vessel in both Christian and
non-Christian venues. I want to become financially
independent by the age of 25, through real estate
investments, to modify a car for me to drive and to be
interviewed and share my story on the "Oprah
Winfrey Show"! Writing several best-selling books
has been one of my dreams and I hope to finish
writing my first by the end of the year. It will be
called "No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!"
I believe that if you have the
desire and passion to do
something, and if it's God's will,
you will achieve it in good time.
As humans, we continually put
limits on ourselves for no reason
at all! What's worse is putting
limits on God who can do all
things. We put God in a "box".
The awesome thing about the
Power of God, is that if we want
to do something for God, instead
of focusing on our capability,
concentrate on our availability
for we know that it is God
through us and we can't do
anything without Him. Once we
make ourselves available for
God's work, guess whose
capabilities we rely on? God's!
The never ending love............

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