Frank Ball wasn’t brain damaged, so he had the ability. He just didn’t want to write—not until 1993, when he discovered how stories could help people in so many ways.
He faced the shortest, yet most difficult writing assignment in 2003: his own epitaph to be placed next to his wife on their grave marker. Bravely, he wrote what he hoped would be true: His stories brought joy to our hearts because his greatest desire was to please the Lord and tell us about God’s love.
At the first writing contest hosted by North Texas Christian Writers, Frank presented the first-prize award to Mary Sefzik, a young blind lady who had written a wonderful poem titled “Hands” in which she described how Daddy’s hands were always there, eagerly taking hers. If she, being blind, could write so well, surely every Christian had life-changing stories that needed to be written.
A few years later at the Chicago airport, Frank met Jim Stovall, also blind, who wrote The Ultimate Gift, which was made into a wonderful movie of the same title. Jim says God gives dreams with the capacity to achieve them.
Yes, if you can talk, you can write—that is, if you want to.
In the eight-minute video below, you can hear Jim Stovall tell how a blind kid helped his insight.
