  We show that a family of meromorphic functions in the unit disk $\dk$ whose
spherical derivatives are uniformly bounded away from zero is normal.
Furthermore, we show that for each $f$ meromorphic in $\dk$ we have
$\inf_{z\in\dk} f^#(z)\le \frac{1}{2}$$ where $f^#$ denotes the spherical
derivative of $f$.
