Upon arriving in Atlanta for the National Wheelchair Championships, the stewardess informed me that they had forgotten my manual wheelchair in Minneapolis when I had changed planes. Fortunately, they had remembered to load my racing chair, but it arrived with a huge crack in the back wheel frame. I knew that there was no way I’d be racing with that!

As I sat in the claims office, filing reports on these two wheelchairs, I thought back to some verses that I had memorized from Psalm 56:3-4:

When I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?

These verses calmed my heart. I didn’t know if I’d be racing, but I knew that God was in control of everything.

The next day, my daily wheelchair arrived at camp. As it happened, my racing wheelchair manufacturer was also at the meet and had, on hand, an exact replacement for my broken wheel.

I was able to compete at that event and ended up setting national records in four events. That was neat. But the most exciting part of this experience was confirming that I could trust God, even when circumstances seemed out of control.