Bow Your Neck: A Story of Faith, Resilience, and Reclaiming Purpose by Matt Courson

At two o'clock in the morning, lying broken at the bottom of a twenty-foot Arkansas embankment, Matt Courson finally stopped fighting and started praying. He was twenty years old, an athlete who thought he was invincible, and he had just been run off the road on his four-wheeler. He couldn't move his legs. He didn't know if anyone would find him. And in that desperate, surrendered moment, he prayed the prayer that would change everything: "Whatever you want from me, it's yours." What followed was a peace he couldn't explain — and the beginning of a journey he would spend years trying to understand. Bow Your Neck is the true story of a small-town kid from McGehee, Arkansas, told by a neurosurgeon he had a 99% chance of never walking again — and who decided, with his father and best friend beside him, that he would be the one percent. It's the story of an eight-hour surgery, a body rebuilt vertebra by vertebra, and a young man learning how to do life all over again. Above all, it is the story of a father and a son. Of a man who got up at five every morning, coached from the third-base line, built parallel bars in a back bedroom, and showed his boy what strength, faith, and showing up really look like — not in words, but in a thousand quiet acts of love. Read more