Near the Edge

Speaking of football players...

A long-time friend of his, an all-star football player and robust athlete, was stricken with cancer that left him in a wheelchair. One day, as President Monson was swimming at Deseret Gym, "there came to my mind the thought, 'Here you swim almost effortlessly, while your friend Stan languishes in his hospital bed, unable to move.' I felt the prompting: 'Get to the hospital and give him a blessing.' "

He quickly dressed, went to the hospital where the nurse told him that he was getting ready for his therpy, and then found his friend near the edge of the deep end of the pool, totally despondent. "It would be so easy to propel the hated wheelchair into the silent water of the deep pool. Life would then be over. But at that precise moment he saw me, his friend." President Monson took him to his room and provided a blessing. "One day, a year or so later, there was a knock at my office door, and in walked my friend who had been told he would never walk again. . . . He expressed to me his gratitude for the inspiration which had come to me that day in the swimming pool at the Deseret Gym.

This could be awesome!

Posted by kevinzico