Oscar Pistorious - NO EXCUSES

Oscar Pistorious a.k.a. The Blade Runner competes in the 2012 Olympics with two amputated legs.

With the Olympics at the forefront of everyone’s minds and screens, we are filled with visions of young athletes overcoming impossible odds, training and working and sweating and crying and clawing and sacrificing and praying their ways to finding their dreams.

What’s your dream? To what ends would you go to achieve it?

I know it’s not easy. There are roadblocks at every turn. Hurdles and obstacles like:

It’s never been done before. I’m not strong enough. It’s a tough road. It’s not practical. When I’m older. If I was younger. I’ve never been formally trained. I’m not tall enough. I’m too tall. I don’t have enough money. I’m so busy. I don’t know how I’d get there. I’m exhausted. I don’t know anyone who does that kind of thing. I don’t even know where to start.

ENOUGH! Or to use one of my favorite Italian words - BASTA!

You could spend the rest of your life coming up with excuses why you never chased your dreams.

OR…

You could think of all the things you’re going to do today, tomorrow, before the Olympics are over to launch them into a reality.

Oscar (Oz) Pistorious, aka The Blade Runner, is a double amputee. He plays rugby, water polo and tennis with prosthetics – unbelievable. But what is even more miraculous is OZ will be the first double amputee to run in the Olympics. Let me say that again. He had both of his legs amputated below the knee when he was a baby, yet he is running in the 2012 Olympics.

He will be competing in both the 400-meter and 4 x 400 meter races for his native South Africa. Oz’s motto is. “You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have." It’s no wonder his last name rhymes with victorious. 

In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37

What abilities to you have?

How are you going to use them today?