Greg Abbott responds to ‘God put you in a wheelchair’ tweet: Paying the price to change someone’s life today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 3, 2019
Gov. Greg Abbott and Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic are in the news for the right reasons. Today's podcast tells the story of heroes whose courage changed the world and invites us to make Christmas real this year through sacrificial service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Texas Governor Greg Abbott was paralyzed from the waist down in 1984 when an oak tree |
| 0:25.8 | fell on him when he was jogging in Houston. |
| 0:28.8 | He has since made overcoming adversity one of the themes of his public life. |
| 0:33.5 | For instance, he recently tweeted a video of a young man in a wheelchair climbing an indoor |
| 0:38.4 | wall with the caption, Never quit, never give up, overcome any challenge. |
| 0:44.9 | A person replied, So great to see, but if I ever end up in a wheelchair, I'm just ending it. |
| 0:51.6 | The governor responded, that's what I thought before I ended up in a wheelchair. |
| 0:56.6 | I've done more after the accident that left me paralyzed than before that accident. |
| 1:02.0 | With God, all things are possible. |
| 1:04.8 | Someone then tweeted back to the governor, |
| 1:07.4 | God put you in a wheelchair, Greg. |
| 1:09.9 | Governor Abbott replied, |
| 1:11.8 | God didn't cause the accident that left me paralyzed, |
| 1:15.0 | but he did help me persevere over that enormous challenge. |
| 1:19.2 | He added, |
| 1:20.3 | I'm a testament that the glory of God is revealed by a young man's back being broken in half, |
| 1:25.7 | and still rising up to be governor of Texas. With God, |
| 1:29.9 | all is possible. Greg Abbott is not the only public figure making news for the right reasons. |
| 1:38.9 | Prior to scoring 27 points in leading his team to victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. |
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