Siran Stacy: One Man’s Courage

Breaking away from music for a bit, I wanted to post this in hopes that maybe it will help us all appreciate what we really have just a little more than we actually do.

I recently read a touching true story that reminded me of another sad but true event that happened one dreadful evening back in November of 2007. It reminded me of how precious life really is and makes me wonder just how many of us really believe it or appreciate it.

That terrible tragedy back in 2007 happened to a couragous man by the name of Siran Stacy. He was a star running back for the University of Alabama with a gifted ability to pick his way through, around, over, under, and right by opposing defenses to light up the scoreboards for the Crimson Tide.

So many times on the football field he was able to utilize his evasive talent to avoid being stopped for a loss. That one time on the highway in 2007 he was unable to elude a drunk driver at an intersection and the terrifying results forever changed his life. In the split second that it took for this drunk driver to slam head on into the van that was carrying Siran Stacy and his family, it also took much more.

It took away Siran’s wife and four of his five children. The only survivors were Siran himself, who was critically injured, and his 3-year-old daughter Shelly. Lost that evening were Stacy’s wife, Ellen, 36, son Bronson, 10, and daughters Lequisa, 18, Sydney, 8, and Ellie, 2.

How could a man find the courage to continue after this? I would say that having surviving daughter Shelly to care for was plenty enough reason to fight for life. An outpouring of prayers from family, friends, fans, and anyone who heard the news, was a tremendous boost in helping Siran Stacy pick up the pieces of his shattered life and find the courage to continue.

Continue he did. He has traveled the south sharing his story and thanking all the ones that prayed for him and his young daughter, who travels with him showing the same courage that her dad instilled in her.

When listening to Siran Stacy, one feels that a sermon has been attended. For good reason, Siran Stacy is to be ordained as a minister. My heart still bleeds for this man and his young daughter, but they both have a bigger hand now to help them through this.

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