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In the book, Handicaps, Volume One, the sixth book in the Call Back Series, we read of a young missionary named Fay Goddard, who had gone to the Philippines, learned the language and customs of the people she had come to serve, when devastating polio suddenly \u201claid bands upon her limbs and she was compelled to be confined to a wheelchair. Back at the Overseas Missionary headquarters in Philadelphia, she found herself \u201cstuffing envelopes, licking stamps, and trying to be busy at whatever others could scrape up for her to do. I was at a dead end, on a shelf,\u201d she tells us. What had been the purpose of all her language study, she asked herself? And her slow but steady entrance into the hearts of the people she had come to love? Had that too been a waste?<\/p>\n
It was at that point that she and God had a very frank conversation. She had previously prayed, \u201cDo whatever You want with me, Lord, whatever it takes to accomplish what you want me to do.\u201d But stuffing envelopes and licking stamps\u2013was this God\u2019s perfect way?<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember Job?\u201d the Lord interjected. Of course she remembered Job! Opening her Bible, Fay read once more Satan\u2019s charge that Job was not serving God for nothing. \u201dWell, Satan could say the same about you,\u201d the Lord challenged.\u201d These words might have seemed harsh, but Fay knew them to be only too true. Living in her little grass-roofed house \u201con a plateau on the edge of a deep valley and within view of the blue-gray mountains\u201d was where she wanted to stay for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I am asking you to do something you don\u2019t want to do,\u201d God told her. I want you to show Satan that you love me enough to do even this for Me. And I want you to do it with joy.\u201d (Handicaps, p. 14). Fay took the challenge and within days found herself the editor of East Asia\u2019s Millions where suddenly, all the pieces seemed to fit together. Her previous life-experience now came into play. She had all the challenge she needed in a job for which she proved a perfect fit.<\/p>\n
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