From Jerry Jenkins’ book, Writing For The Soul. In it, he has an article about writing Just As I Am with Billy Graham. He ends his article with a visit he and his wife takes to see Dr. Graham around his sixtieth wedding anniversary.
I found him in bed with a broken pelvis. Regardless, he looked majestic, with those piercing blue eyes and that mane of white hair. He told us that his doctor has come the day before to gove him an injection directly into the pelvic bone, and that the man had warned him it would be painful.
“The doctor told me to imagine the one place I’d rather be than this, a Shangri-la of some sort. And concentrate on that. I told him, ‘There’s nowhere I’d rather be than right here, right now.’ The doctor said, ‘Why in the world would you say that? I told you, this is really going to hurt.’
“I told him, ’Because I believe I’m in the center of God’s will, and if this is where He wants me, this is where I want to be.’”
There’s a lesson for everybody, especially inspirational writers.
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