Gonna wake up dancing gordon mote biography

Who is Gordon Mote?

Totally blind from birth, Mote's childhood in rural Alabama was not quite the same as other boys his age. Many challenges faced the young lad, as well as his brother, who was also born blind.

Nevertheless, the Mote family clung to the promises of God's Word, particularly Jeremiah 29:11. "Our parents always encouraged my brother and me," Mote remembers.

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"They believed we could excel in whatever we chose to do, as long as we placed Christ at the center of our goals and our lives, and that's what we did," he says with a big smile.

Excelling seemed to come naturally for both boys, who were drawn to sports.

In addition to sports, Mote was also drawn to music, and on Thanksgiving Day, a young three-year-old Mote stunned his parents when they heard him playing "Jesus Loves Me" on the piano, with both hands. No doubt, their son was blessed with an extremely unique, God-given gift, and they encouraged him to perfect his musical gifts.

During that perfecting process, Mo