Hey Hey!!! Im back from camp! Can't tell how awesome it was because it was just way too AWESOME! A camp which should NEVER be missed! :)Anyway... NSCFL Camp will be posted up later due to toomanypictures XD Now i just wanna share this really touching story about Derek Redmond that happened in year 1992.
It was the most memorable moment of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Four years earlier, just 10 minutes before the starting gun, record-holder Derek Redmond had withdrawn from running the 400 meter race due to an Achilles tendon injury. Five surgeries and four years later he wanted to win a medal. It was his day.
Moments into the race Derek was in the lead, a shoo in to win the race with only 175 meters to go. Then he heard a pop – his right hamstring snapped. He fell to the surface. After the other runners passed him, he got up on one leg and started hopping, not toward the infield and the medics and stretchers, but toward the finish line. He told the medical crew, “There’s no way I’m getting on that stretcher. I’m going to finish my race!”
65,000 people in the stands and millions around the world watched via television and they were all clapping, cheering and crying. Derek’s dad jumped from the stands to support his trip down the track. “We’ll finish together,” Jim whispered to his weeping son.The crowd went wild as Derek crossed the finish line. Father and son embraced and wept together.
Pictures says a thousand words. This picture to me reminds us of our heavenly father and how he is always there for us. Helping us through every difficulties till we reach our finish line ;)
PRAISE GOD ;)
