Texas cheerleader saves choking boy: The motivating power of gratitude
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR OCTOBER 8, 2019
A Texas cheerleader used her medical training to save a young boy. Today's podcast discusses her courage and invites us to respond to the grace we have received with gratitude that motivates 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 |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.0 | Tyra Winters is a cheerleader at Rockwall High School east of Dallas. |
| 0:24.3 | She was riding on a homecoming parade float when she saw a desperate mother and a little |
| 0:28.9 | boy in trouble. |
| 0:30.3 | She later told the reporter, I see the kid, I see a little bright red face and his mom's |
| 0:35.8 | holding him up, begging for help, screaming, |
| 0:38.9 | asking, someone help me, someone help me. |
| 0:41.6 | Tyra received CPR training in the eighth grade because her mother works in the medical field. |
| 0:47.3 | So she jumped off the float, ran to the boy, and gave him three strong back thrusts that |
| 0:52.7 | made him spit up the candy he was choking on. |
| 0:55.5 | The incident happened on September 18th, but the mother, Nicole Hornback, |
| 1:00.0 | brought her two-year-old son Clark to Winter's school last week to thank her. |
| 1:04.2 | I commend her for being a teenager and being trained, Hornback said. |
| 1:08.5 | She saved my baby. |
| 1:12.4 | It's not hard to find challenges in the news today. For instance, a woman managed to board a |
| 1:18.2 | Delta Airlines jet with no ID or boarding pass. An investigation into the security breach is |
| 1:24.3 | ongoing, and the FBI has been notified. |
| 1:35.8 | Jeopardy host Alex Trebek says his ongoing battle with pancreatic cancer may lead to the end of his run as host of the game show. |
| 1:43.2 | In other health news, a hospital in Pennsylvania has announced that it will transfer some babies to nearby medical facilities after three premature infants |
| 1:45.3 | contracted a bacterial infection and died. Isaiah 9-2 describes a day when, |
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