Ang Peregrino Recommends 49: Life Without Limbs

Life With­out Limbs
URL: http://​www​.life​with​out​limbs​.org/

Life With­out Limbs is a great web­site because Nick Vuji­cic is a great man.

Con­sider this: Nick Vuji­cic was born in Mel­bourne, limb­less, miss­ing both arms at shoul­der level, and hav­ing one small foot with two toes pro­trud­ing from his left thigh. Ini­tially, his par­ents, who are devout Ser­bian Chris­t­ian, were devastated.

How­ever, Nick turned out to be oth­er­wise per­fectly healthy. That is not what makes him amaz­ing though.

His life was filled with dif­fi­cul­ties and hard­ships. He was not allowed to attend a main­stream school because of his phys­i­cal dis­abil­ity, as the law of Aus­tralia required. When he was study­ing, the laws were changed, and Nick was one of the first dis­abled stu­dents to be migrated to a main­stream school. He learned to write using the two toes on his left “foot,” and a spe­cial device that slid onto his big toe to grip. He also learned to use a com­puter and type using the “heel and toe” method. He can also throw ten­nis balls and answer the phone.

He was bul­lied at his school, grew extremely depressed, and by the age of eight, started con­tem­plat­ing sui­cide. After beg­ging God to grow arms and legs, Nick even­tu­ally began to real­ize that his accom­plish­ments were an inspi­ra­tion to many, and began to thank God he was alive. When he was sev­en­teen, he started to give talks at his prayer group, and even­tu­ally started his non-profit orga­ni­za­tion, Life With­out Limbs.

Nick grad­u­ated from col­lege at the age of 21 with a dou­ble major in Account­ing and Finan­cial Plan­ning. He began his trav­els as a moti­va­tional speaker, focus­ing on the top­ics that today’s teenagers face. He also speaks in the cor­po­rate sec­tor, although his aim is to become an inter­na­tional inspi­ra­tional speaker, in both Chris­t­ian and non-Christian venues. He reg­u­larly trav­els inter­na­tion­ally to speak to Chris­t­ian con­gre­ga­tions, schools, and cor­po­rate meet­ings. He has spo­ken on four con­ti­nents (Africa, Asia, Aus­tralia, and North Amer­ica), in over twelve coun­tries, and to over two mil­lion peo­ple face-to-face.

The Life With­out Limbs orga­ni­za­tion, which Vuji­cic founded in 2005, is aimed at giv­ing peo­ple liv­ing with no limbs moti­va­tion and inspi­ra­tion for their lives. This is done by giv­ing speeches world­wide about Chris­t­ian faith and the impact that faith in God can have to help the world.

He deals with top­ics like fear and rejec­tion, depres­sion, suf­fer­ing, and even unan­swered prayers.

Watch the video below to see for yourself.

For teach­ing us that there are worse things in life than hav­ing no limbs, and that life with­out limbs is, like every­thing else, the begin­ning to a life with­out lim­its, Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends Life With­out Limbs this week.