A very wonderful man suffered a very devastating brain injury. He was not expected to live, but he did. No one could say if he would recover at all. He did. He was not expected to go back to work. He did. He was not expected to gain all of his cognitive functioning back. He did. He was not expected to regain his sense of space. He did. It’s been about 10 years, and he continues to get better as time goes on.

Through the years, he often quoted a saying he had heard from a basketball coach. It went something like this:

“Do not let what we cannot do, stop us from doing what we can do.”

Such powerful words. They certainly give us a powerful way to think about life. If we dwell on what we cannot do, we get stuck and stop moving. As we concentrate on doing what we can, we build a road into the future, where we have the opportunity to gain more and more abilities.