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The Power of Preparation
“I was screaming and terrified on the inside. I didn’t even know
I was calm until everybody kept saying that. And so what I did
is I went back to listen to the 911 tape to see exactly what I was
saying and how calm I was. And to be honest with you, I didn’t
even recognize my own voice. And so I knew at that moment
that it was God that guided me through that day.”
A chapter about preparation might seem kind of boring,
but Antoinette Tuff would tell you otherwise. On an ordinary
Tuesday in 2013, at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning
Academy in Decatur, Georgia, she was thankful that her life
of faith, and even the pain of her personal story, had prepared
her for the moment when she would step beyond her job as a
bookkeeper, into that of a hero. She would save the lives of
hundreds of school children as well as countless teachers and
emergency responders.
“All of us have a purpose in our life. And so God prepares
us all for one. That day was very important for me that every
word that proceeded out of my mouth at that point in time