The Power of Faith When Tragedy Strikes

The Power of Faith When Tragedy Strikes

The Power of Faith When Tragedy Strikes

The Power of Faith When Tragedy Strikes

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Overview

On a beautiful October day in 2010, eighteen-year-old Chris Norton jogged onto the football field on a kickoff for Luther College and was wheeled off on a stretcher after a routine tackle fractured his spine causing significant damage to his spinal cord. Given a 3 percent chance of ever moving anything below the neck, Chris awoke from surgery sixteen hours later defying the odds by shrugging his shoulder, beginning his long-fought journey to recovery with his family and biggest fan—father Terry—by his side.

Told through alternating chapters, this inspiring father-son memoir recounts a young man’s seemingly insurmountable quest to regain movement in every part of his body, and a father’s struggle to be the rock his son and family lean on in the face of their worst nightmare. Chris and Terry depict with brutal honesty the harrowing months they spent in rehabilitation and the years that followed where family, friends, and faith became the nucleus that saw them through. Chris’s graduation walk, marriage proposal, and courageous story have already inspired millions worldwide.
Co-Authors: Chris Norton & Terry Norton
Compiled by: Christy Hayes


Product Details

BN ID: 2940152384826
Publisher: Chris Norton
Publication date: 10/09/2015
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Chris A. Norton was born on March 20, 1992, in Des Moines, Iowa. The day he was born his parents joked that the acronym for his name was C.A.N. This is appropriate because Chris CAN do anything he puts his mind to accomplish. Graduating from Bondurant-Farrar High School, he earned a 3.86 cumulative GPA, top 15% in his class, and was a member of the National Honor Society. Chris excelled in athletics participating in football, basketball, and track. He decided to attend and play football at Luther College. On October 16, 2010, in Decorah, Iowa, playing for Luther College Chris Norton was severely injured while making a tackle on a kickoff, fracturing his C3-C4 vertebrae. After being told from doctors he had a 3% chance of ever regaining movement below the neck, Chris has defied the odds every step of the way, demonstrating a faith and determination to overcome his circumstance that has inspired millions. The day after his injury, Chris awoke from surgery without any movement below his neck. He spent the following year in Rochester, MN, devoting his time to intense, daily therapy sessions. Throughout his stay he met others with spinal cord injuries and neurological muscular disorders who were fighting the same kind of daily battle to regain mobility. The impact these remarkable individuals had on Chris stuck with him, so that when he returned to Luther College the next fall he felt inspired to launch the SCI CAN Foundation, with the mission of providing opportunities to individuals in need of a path to recovery. Chris began his speaking career in college by sharing his story and message to various local groups. From there, the word spread about Chris's powerful presentation and he began to get more speaking referrals and requests. He quickly witnessed the impact his message was having with students, families, health professionals, and business employees; he then felt inspired to make a career out of helping others through his words. Today, Chris continues on his way to recovery by working out 4 hours a day and his speaking career and the SCI CAN Foundation has flourished. Most recently Chris was able to stand unassisted for 10 minutes and he realized his goal of walking across the stage on graduation day. He devoted the final semester of college leading up to his commencement ceremony to a full-time therapy program in Plymouth, Michigan. However, Chris's journey is far from over. Throughout his life Chris has never lost sight of the idea that with hard work and determination anything is possible. Norton Motivation has expanded on this philosophy so that others are inspired to overcome adversity as Chris has — one step at a time.


Christy Hayes writes romance and women's fiction. She lives outside Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, two children, and two dogs.

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