Becoming a Gracious Receiver
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Ways to Think Positive
By Glenda Standeven

It is not giving up, it is accepting.
And the light will enter. Always does.
~Kamal Ravikant

Losing my entire right leg, including my hip and pelvis, to bone cancer at thirty-two years of age was going to be hard. I knew that. But, two weeks before my biopsy results came in, I had a dream that my life on one leg would be filled with purpose. And, if I chose to live my life as an amputee, it would most certainly be a life that mattered. We had one son at the time, and I even fore-saw the birth of a second son.

I didn’t tell anyone about the dream. I just wrote these words in my journal: “After the dream I had last night, I know I am going to lose my leg, and it’s going to be okay.” (Keep reading)