From Where I Sit, From Where You Stand: A Roll Through LifeAs Marshall, with his wife and family, rolls through life, accompany him. Enjoy the witty and often whimsical episodes that occur. In work, play, travel, community, and worship, ponder the dialogues of opinions, perceptions, events, and realities of being physically challenged. The journey, which includes more than fifty years in a wheelchair, is presented in a topical display in chapters on different arenas of life: The Paradox - Diversities of perceptions and realties. The Good Old Days - Early life on a one-horse farm. Fate Knocked at My Door - The accident. Angels of Mercy - Hospitalization. Letters of Cheer - Student nurses’ letters. Give Me Elbow Grease - Rehabilitation You Can Go Home Again - Summer at home. The Halls of Ivy - Education. Keeping the Faith – Job searching. The Birds and the Bees – Love and passion. Dreams Come True - Marriage and family. Toiling in the Vineyards - Work experiences. No Man is an Island - Community life. On the Road - Travel. God Bless You – God, others, and I. Keeping the Juices Flowing - Adapting Can’t See the Forest for the Trees – Perceptions. Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk – Realities. The Golden Years - The senior years. The Journey has been one of challenges, physical, mental, and spiritual. It included two years of hospitalization and rehabilitation to prepare him to enter a world not yet ready for the physically challenged. He found himself looking inside with no way in. He boarded airplanes by hand-walking the support rails. He dealt with perceptions: “What can you do? You are handicapped!” His faith and hope were tested: Why me, God? Should I marry? Will any company hire me? Successes came: A lovely wife, two beautiful adopted babies, enjoyable work, friendships, health, and joy.
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... someone who can perform the responsibilities of my position . But the public at - large does not always share that view . A neighbor of ours summarized it most succinctly , " You know , when you lose the use of your legs , you are not ...
... someone else . Even though I initiate the conversation , a restaurant hostess may re - direct the conversation to a companion . A store clerk may address someone near by . The receptionist at a doctor's office may assume that I am the ...
... Someone told you.” I had solved it too fast! Dad had the better education. Mom's reading consisted of the newspaper, the catalogs, the Sunday school lesson, and the Bible. In World War I, Dad tutored recruits in the basic 3Rs. When we ...
... someone who will always listen and give comfort and hope. Mom loved her family, but she ruled with a strong arm. She believed that sparing the rod spoiled the child. Many a time, we children broke the limb from a 'peach' tree to have ...
... someone there, at the top of the hill, to hear it? Did God have a hand in it? “Was God Keeping Watch Over Us,” a poem by James Russell Lowell, ends with: And, behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above his ...
Contents
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Letters of Cheer | 47 |
Give Me Elbow Grease | 65 |
You Can Go Home Again | 87 |
Keeping the Faith | 111 |
Dreams Come True | 133 |
Toiling in the Vineyards | 157 |
No Man Is an Island | 185 |
On The Road | 213 |
God Bless You | 233 |
Keeping the Juices Flowing | 253 |
Cant See the Forest for the Trees | 275 |
Dont Cry Over Spilled Milk | 295 |