Free Life Without Limits by Nick Vujicic Page A

like cordwood in the backseat of the car. Like most dads, ours didn’t like to stop once we hit the road. When we grew hungry, we’d drop big hints to my dad and mum.
    When we were absolutely famished, we’d go a little crazy and pretend to take bites out of each other. On one trip Michelle announced that she intended to chew on my little left foot “because it looks just like a chicken drumstick.” We laughed about it, but I forgot about her description. Then a few years ago, Michelle brought home a puppy. The little pup tried to chew on my foot whenever I sat down. I’d nudge him away, but he kept coming back to gnaw on it.
    “See, it still looks like a chicken drumstick even to my puppy!” Michelle said.
    I loved it! Ever since then, I’ve told that story in my speeches to schoolchildren. But once I introduce my left foot, I ask kids if they think I have just one foot. This question always throws them for a loop because they can see only one foot, but it would make sense for me to have two.
    Most kids go with what they can see. They usually tell me they think I have just one foot. I then produce for them Junior, my even smaller right foot, which I normally keep tucked in. Sometimes I shock them by sticking out my right foot and wiggling it. They usually shriek and scream. It’s funny because kids are so straightforward. They admit that they have to see it to believe it.
    I then encourage them, just as I now encourage you, to trust that there are
possibilities
for your life. The key to moving forward, even in hard times, is to let your vision for your life be guided not by what you can see but by what you can imagine. That’s called having faith.
TRUST IN FLIGHT
    My imagination flows through God’s eyes. I trust Him. I have full assurance in my heart that even without arms and legs, I can build a wonderful life. In the same way, you should feel that nothing is out of your reach. Have faith that if you do everything you possibly can to achieve your dreams, your efforts will be rewarded.
    Sometimes our trust is tested before our hard work pays off. I was reminded of this in 2009 while on a speaking tour of Colombia, in South America. I was booked to speak in nine cities in ten days. With so many miles to cover in such a limited amount of time, the tour booker chartered a small airplane to take us from town to town. There were eight of us on the flights, including our two pilots, both of whom were named Miguel and neither of whom spoke much English. During one of the flights, everyone in the passenger cabin was startled to hear the plane’s computer call out an automated warning: “Pull up, pull up!” The alert was in English!
    The computer voice tracked our rapid descent with increasing urgency, giving our plane’s decreasing altitude. “Six hundred feet!” “Five hundred feet!” “Four hundred feet!” The reports were interspersed with continuing commands to the pilots to “Pull up! Pull up!”
    No one freaked out, but the mood in the passenger cabin was more than a little tense. I asked my caregiver if he thought we needed to be translating the onboard computer warnings from English to Spanish for Captains Miguel One and Two.
    “Do you think they really don’t know we’re descending?” he asked.
    I didn’t know what to think, but since no one else seemed to feel it was a problem, I followed their lead and tried not to freak out. Much to my relief, we soon landed safely. Later when one of our translators mentioned our moment of panic to our pilots, they had a great laugh.
    “We knew what the computer was saying, but we always ignore it when we’re landing,” Miguel Two said through the translator. “You should have more faith in your pilots, Nick!”
    Okay, I’ll admit, for a minute there I questioned my trust in the flying Miguels. But most of the time I rest assured that God is looking out for me and my life. I’ll give you a clue about the strength of my trust: I have a pair of shoes in my