Pastor Daniel Ritchie was born without arms and despite growing up being told he was a “hopeless mistake, woefully insufficient and unable to lead a full life,” he is using his experiences to glorify God.
Ritchie wasn’t raised a Christian. And growing up he was bullied, laughed at, and left out. At birth, doctors asked his parents if they would rather “let him go,” but thankfully they chose life. Now he’s showing the world that God always had a great plan for his life in his new book, My Affliction for His Glory.
The Huntersville, North Carolina, native uses the book to explain how he found “identity, value and purpose” in life after coming to Jesus as a young man who was crippled with depression because of how others treated him and devalued his worth.
“I’ll never amount to anything. I’ll never find someone to spend my life with. I’ll never do anything that matters in the long run,” Ritchie once thought of himself, according to a statement shared with The Christian Post. “Never is a word I’ve heard a lot in my life. Having been born without either of my arms, I spent the first few years of my life being told all the things that I would never be able to do.
“Adversity can lead to doubt at the deepest levels,” he said. “Comparing ourselves to others who (seem or pretend to) have it ‘all together,’ can…
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