When I was in Melbourne, Australia as a minister, I kept hearing stories about a woman, a cripple, but I never believed them. I did not think the stories could be true. I went one day to offer comfort to her, but before I had been in the room ten minutes it was I who was receiving instruction, broken down, and dissolved in a flood of emotion. When she was 18 she was seized with a dread malady, and the doctor said that to save her life he must take off the foot. Both feet went. They followed the disease up the body, took off her legs to the knees, still followed it up, and cut as far as the trunk. Then it broke out in her hands. The first arm went to the shoulder, and the second to the shoulder, and when I saw that woman, Miss Higgins, all that remained of her was a trunk, nothing more than a trunk. For 15 years she had been there. The walls of her room were covered with Scripture texts, all of them radiating, speaking of joy, peace, and power.

             One day while lying in bed she asked the Lord what she could do, a dismembered woman without a joint in her body. Then an inspiration came to her, and she got a friend who was a carpenter to come. He fitted a pad to her shoulder and then a fountain pen, and she began to write letters with it. Remember, when you write, you write with your arm. As there was no joint, she wrote with the whole of her body. There may be clever calligraphists in this place, but I will undertake to say there is no woman who could write a letter one-half so beautiful from the point of view of calligraphy as that woman wrote in my presence. She had received 1,500 to 1,600 letters from people who had been brought to Christ through the letters she had written in that way from that room.

             I said to her:“How do you do it?” She smiled and replied, “Well, you know Jesus said, “He who believes on Me … out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). I believed in Him and that is all.”

                If one in such an absolutely helpless condition as this Christian woman could by the help of God accomplish such amazing results in winning souls, who of us after this need despair? Who is there so crippled in body or circumstances that cannot in some way be made a blessing to others? God seems to glory in doing the impossible. He still takes “the weak things … to confound the things that are mighty” (1 Cor. 1:27). Nothing is too hard for Him. Give Him a chance.