If anyone had told me in the summer of 1979 that within three years I should be unable to walk, speak, write by hand and feed myself, then surely I would have gone to pieces emotionally and perhaps spiritually. After all, I had just enjoyed a vigorous walking holiday in North Wales, descending from Snowdon by the difficult Crib Goch route... Since hearing the diagnosis, I have been struggling to come to terms with the implications of this illness - no, 'struggling' is the wrong word, for as my physical power has waned, so faith has been wonderfully strengthened... I feel surrounded and upheld by God's love.
Walter Martin, 1984
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