Unfolding Short Stories: "I want to learn to walk with my dog" Tina Zimmerman shares about training a service dog for Gary Miracle
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When Tina Zimmerman heard and saw the story of Gary Miracle, a man who suddenly lost all four limbs, she wanted to use her unique gifting to help him. Tina trains service dogs for people with disabilities. At first, she thought she might be able to get this done through an organization that she's a part of, which is involved in creating service dogs for wounded veterans. But Gary was not a veteran. After a short period of wrestling. She knew that God was calling her to donate her time and resources to change Gary's life for the better. ECMO, Gary's dog, has not only been the physical help that Gary has needed, but he's also been a needed companion through difficult times.
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:06.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:09.9 | One of the things I love about God's stories is how he uses one story to impact another story. |
| 0:17.1 | It's probably happened to you. |
| 0:18.3 | You hear somebody's story, it changes the way you think about something |
| 0:21.7 | or it gives you an idea or maybe it raises your faith to believe that God could do that in your life. |
| 0:28.3 | One story affects another story, affects another story and on and on. It's one of the reasons I |
| 0:34.0 | appreciate Tina Zimmerman throughout her life, she has been open to allowing |
| 0:39.3 | God to use someone else's story to change the course of her own. |
| 0:45.0 | My name is Tina Zimmerman, and I'm the owner of mainstream training, and also I founded an |
| 0:50.3 | organization called U.S. honor dogs. I train service dogs professionally. And in U.S. |
| 0:57.0 | honor dogs, we train and donate service dogs to people who have served either in the military or in |
| 1:03.1 | the police or as firefighters and were somehow injured in the line of duty. And back in 2020, my husband |
| 1:10.1 | was at work. He had a Christian radio station playing and heard |
| 1:14.6 | the song, Say I Won't by Mercy Me. And the person who was on the radio said, if you haven't seen |
| 1:21.4 | the video to this song, you need to go to YouTube and watch it. And so he did. And of course, as soon as |
| 1:27.0 | he saw it, he told me to watch it. |
| 1:30.1 | The video starts with a gentleman named Gary Miracle, and he rolls out in a wheelchair, |
| 1:36.5 | and he is missing all four limbs. And the song is about him being told he was not going to live. |
| 1:45.0 | His family was called in because he was going to die. |
| 1:47.8 | And they said he would never walk again. |
| 1:50.1 | But when you tell him you're not going to do something, it's say I won't live, say I won't walk, say I won't run, say I won't fly. |
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