by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 27, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Hanging on to Hope
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as the expectation of something tomorrow.” Orison Swett Marden Early 2005, Pershing Park – Los Angeles, California: Steve Lopez, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 6, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Finding Hope, Uncategorized
“My friend, at one point or another, the sky will darken, the winds will rage and we will find ourselves in the eye of a storm. It is in the storms that God does his finest work, for in the storms he has our keenest attention. Max Lucado 2014 – Boise, Idaho: The...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 11, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Limitless Possibilities
“All things are possible with God’s help. None of this would have happened without Him.” Sister Schubert 1991 – Troy, Alabama: Patricia “Sister” Schubert, a 40-year-old single mother with two young daughters, was...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 28, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Courage, Iron-willed
“Would anyone but a crazy person do this? I am a prisoner of my dream.” Philippe Petit 1968 – Dentist office, Paris, France: The magazine article mesmerized 18-year-old Philippe. He tore the article out and stuffed it in his pocket. It was about the construction of...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 10, 2022 | Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Limitless Possibilities
Early 1870’s – Hartsville College, Hartsville, Indiana: The college president opened the United Brethren Churches conference with the comment, “We live in an exciting age, the age of inventions.” The United Brethren bishop interrupted him, “What kinds of inventions?”...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 25, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Hanging on to Hope, Limitless Possibilities, Never Give Up
“If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it?” Stephen King 1972 – Hampden, Maine: Tabitha was emptying the wastebasket when she found Stephen’s three wadded-up typewritten...
