亲爱的朋友：
这是一个在极大不幸中关乎信心的故事。如果尼克的故事还不能让我们相信神的大爱，全能以及信心可以做的事情，那就没有其他的故事可以让我们相信了。
我名叫尼克，我归荣耀给神，因为他用我的见证来触及到全世界数以千计的心灵！我出生时就没有四肢。医生没有办法用医学的方法来解释这种生来残疾的现象。你完全可以想象，我曾经所面对的诸多挑战和困难。
“我的弟兄啊，当你面对不同试探的时候，要全然喜乐，”
我的伤痛和努力算不了什么，只有纯粹的喜乐吗？我的父母都是基督徒，我的父亲甚至时我们教区的牧师，他非常清楚地了解这节经文的意思。然而，在澳大利亚的墨尔本，1982年12月4日的那个早上我父母脑海中最后想到的话就是“赞美上帝”！他们头生的儿子天生就没有四肢。对他们而言，根本就没有时间和事先的通知来做好心理准备。连医生也因为吃惊而无言以对。从医学上，也没有理由来解释这些为什么会发生。而我的另外一个弟弟和妹妹和别的婴儿没有什么两样。
整个教堂都为我的出生而感到忧伤，我的父母更是完全垮了。每个人都在问：“如果上帝是爱人的上帝，为什么上帝会让这样的事情发生在虔诚的基督徒身上，而不是其他人？”我父亲以为我活不了多久，不过经过测试，我当时是一个非常健康的男婴，仅仅是没有四肢而已。
可以理解，我的父母非常担心，并且对我未来的生活感到害怕。神在最初的那几年中给了他们力量，智慧和勇气。不久以后，我就到了上学的年龄了。
由于我身体上的残疾，澳大利亚的法律不允许我进入正规学校读书。但神用他的大能给了我母亲力量，是她与法律抗争并使其改变。我成为了第一个进入正规学校读书的残疾学生。
我喜欢学校，并且尝试像普通人那样地生活，不过在我刚入学的那些年，我有了非常痛苦的一段时间。由于我身体上与别人不同，我被排挤，被嘲笑，被侮辱。当初我真的很难适应，不过在我父母的支持下，我开始培养了不同的态度和价值惯。这些宝贵的东西帮助我战胜了那些艰难的岁月。我知道我的身体虽然与别人不同，但是我的内心和每个人都一样。有很多次，我曾一度陷入低谷，我因为无法面对这些鄙视的态度而不愿意去学校。但是我的父母鼓励我不要被这些负面的信息所左右，同时通过与一些孩子们说话来结交朋友。不久，我的同学发现我和他们一样。从那时起神就在交朋友的事情上祝福我。
有几次，我感到非常沮丧和愤恨，因为我不能改变我的现状，或者因为我的残疾来责备任何人，我去了主日学，我明白了神爱我们所有人，他关心你。我明白，神爱我们如同他的孩子一样。但是我却无法明白如果神爱我，为什么他把我造成这样。是否因为我做了什么坏事吗？我想一定是这样。在学校里，我是一个怪物，我感到自己是周围人的负担，我早些离开这个世界，对任何人都有好处。我很小的时候就想到过结束我的生命和痛苦。但是我又一次要感谢我的家庭，是他们总是在哪里给我力量和幸福的感觉。
由于情感上的努力，我经历了威吓，自私，和孤单后，神让我又感动来分享我的故事和经历，以此来帮助别人，让别人能够胜过所生命当中的挑战，也让神把挑战变成祝福。来鼓励和激励别人来开发最大的潜能，不要让任何的事情来阻止他们的希望和梦想。
我们要学习的第一课就是不要把所有的事情都认为是理所当然的。
“我们知道，神在爱他的人身上做的工作是最好的。”
这句经文说到了我心里去了，我也相信这些“坏”事情的发生也不是运气，或是偶然所致。
我完全平安地相信，神让任何的事情临到我们身上，都有他美好的旨意。当我15岁那年，当我读了约翰福音9章，耶稣说，那个瞎子之所以出生就是瞎的，因为“是要在他身上显出神的作为来”（约9：3）我真信神可以来医治我，使我可以成为他大能的一个大的见证。后来我又懂得，如果我们祈祷在神的旨意里面，在神预定的时候，就一定能够成就。如果祈祷的不是神的旨意，我知道，神会安排更好的。
如今，我明白神在我身上显示出来的荣耀是别人身上所无法显示的。
现在我已经23岁了，并且已经完成了金融和会计专业的商业学士学位。我也是积极做各种演讲，只要有机会，我就喜欢外出去分享我的故事和见证。我常以对当今年轻人构成挑战的内容为题目，将我的演讲与学生们联系起来使他们得到许多鼓励。
我有一份热情来与年轻人交往，使我可以做任何神希望我做的。无论他如何引导，我都跟从。
在我的生活当中，我已经设立了很多目标和梦想。我想成为最好的，见证来见证神的爱和希望，成为一个世界范围的属灵的演讲家。在基督徒和非基督徒的聚会中成为神的器皿。我希望我可以通过在不动产上的投资，在25岁时实现经济上的独立。来改良一辆可以让我来驾驶的汽车。我想在“奥普拉·温弗莉脱口秀”节目中接受采访和分享我的故事。些几本关于我的梦想的畅销书也是我的梦想之一。我希望在今年可以完成我的第一本著作。书的名字就是《没有四肢，却一无挂虑》。
我相信，只要你有渴望和热情来做一些事情，只要这是神的心意，你就会在最合适的时候来达到你的目标。作为普通人，我们毫无理由地不断在自己身上加上各种限制，但是给全能的神加上限制则更糟糕。我们把神放在一个“盒子”里。关于神大能，便是我们是否可以做神要我们做的事情，而不是关注于神我们自己的能力和行事的可能性，因为我们知道，这些是神通过我们来做的，没有他，我们什么都不能做。只要我们可以配合神的工作，那我们是依靠谁的大能呢？没有错，就是神！
求神保佑你
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尼克
Dear Friends,
An amazing story of faith in adversity. If Nick's story doesn't convince us about God's love & His power & what faith can do, then nothing else will.
My name is Nick Vujicic and I give God the Glory for how He has used my testimony to touch thousands of hearts around the world! I was born without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth "defect". As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles.
"Consider it pure joy, my Brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds."
....To count our hurt, pain and struggle as nothing but pure joy? As my parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of our church, they knew that verse very well. However, on the morning of the 4th of December 1982 in Melbourne (Australia), the last two words on the minds of my parents was "Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it. The doctors we shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby.
The whole church mourned over my birth and my parents were absolutely devastated. Everyone asked, "if God is a God of Love, then why would God let something this bad happen to not just anyone, but dedicated Christians?" My Dad thought I wouldn't survive for very long, but tests proved that I was a healthy baby boy just with a few limbs missing.
Understandably, my parents had strong concern and evident fears of what kind of life I'd be able to lead. God provided them strength, wisdom and courage through those early years and soon after that I was old enough to go to school.
The law in Australia didn't allow me to be integrated into a main-stream school because of my physical disability. God did miracles and gave my Mom the strength to fight for the law to be changed. I was one of the first disabled students to be integrated into a main-stream school.
I liked going to school, and just try to live life like everyone else, but it was in my early years of school where I encountered uncomfortable times of feeling rejected, weird and bullied because of my physical difference. It was very hard for me to get used to, but with the support of my parents, I started to develop attitudes and values which helped me overcome these challenging times. I knew that I was different but on the inside I was just like everyone else. There were many times when I felt so low that I wouldn't go to school just so I didn't have to face all the negative attention. I was encouraged by my parents to ignore them and to try start making friends by just talking with some kids. Soon the students realized that I was just like them, and starting there God kept on blessing me with new friends.
There were times when I felt depressed and angry because I couldn't change the way I was, or blame anyone for that matter. I went to Sunday School and learnt that God loves us all and that He cares for you. I understood that love to a point as a child, but I didn't understand that if God loved me why did He make me like this? Is it because I did something wrong? I thought I must have because out of all the kids at school, I'm the only weird one. I felt like I was a burden to those around me and the sooner I go, the better it'd be for everyone. I wanted to end my pain and end my life at a young age, but I am thankful once again, for my parents and family who were always there to comfort me and give me strength.
Due to my emotional struggles I had experienced with bullying, self esteem and loneliness, God has implanted a passion of sharing my story and experiences to help others cope with whatever challenge they have in their life and let God turn it into a blessing. To encourage and inspire others to live to their fullest potential and not let anything get in the way of accomplishing their hopes and dreams.
One of the first lessons that I have learnt was not to take things for granted.
"And we know that in all things God works for the best for those who love Him."
That verse spoke to my heart and convicted me to the point where that I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these "bad" things happen in our life.
I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless He has a good purpose for it all. I completely gave my life to Christ at the age of fifteen after reading John 9. Jesus said that the reason the man was born blind was "so that the works of God may be revealed through Him." I truly believed that God would heal me so I could be a great testimony of His Awesome Power. Later on I was given the wisdom to understand that if we pray for something, if it's God's will, it'll happen in His time. If it's not God's will for it to happen, then I know that He has something better.
I now see that Glory revealed as He is using me just the way I am and in ways others can't be used.
I am now twenty-three years old and have completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial Planning and Accounting. I am also a motivational speaker and love to go out and share my story and testimony wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to and encourage students through topics that challenge today's teenagers. I am also a speaker in the corporate sector.
I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep myself available for whatever God wants me to do, and wherever He leads, I follow.
I have many dreams and goals that I have set to achieve in my life. I want to become the best witness I can be of God's Love and Hope, to become an international inspirational speaker and be used as a vessel in both Christian and non-Christian venues. I want to become financially independent by the age of 25, through real estate investments, to modify a car for me to drive and to be interviewed and share my story on the "Oprah Winfrey Show"! Writing several best-selling books has been one of my dreams and I hope to finish writing my first by the end of the year. It will be called "No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!"
I believe that if you have the desire and passion to do something, and if it's God's will, you will achieve it in good time. As humans, we continually put limits on ourselves for no reason at all! What's worse is putting limits on God who can do all things. We put God in a "box". The awesome thing about the Power of God, is that if we want to do something for God, instead of focusing on our capability, concentrate on our availability for we know that it is God through us and we can't do anything without Him. Once we make ourselves available for God's work, guess whose capabilities we rely on? God's!
May the Lord Bless you
In Christ,
Nick Vujicic
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