by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 20, 2018 | Long Shots, Never Give Up, Never Lose Heart, Uncategorized
3:00 AM, February 21, 1962 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Wayne Huizenga drank his third cup of coffee. He had not slept much and it was going to be a long shift. Life had not turned out the way he had hoped. Many of his high school buddies had earned college degrees from...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2018 | Compassion, Never Lose Heart, Overcoming Adversity, Uncategorized
October 1811 – Boston, Massachusetts: After applying to the American Board for Foreign Missions to become a missionary in India, Adoniram Judson discovered that single men were not accepted into the program. The twenty-three-year-old Brown University valedictorian and...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 10, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Never Give Up, Never Lose Heart
Tabitha was emptying the wastebasket when she found Stephen’s three wadded-up typewritten pages. After knocking off the cigarette ashes and smoothing out the pages, she began to read. It was good and she wondered how the story ended. Aware that her 26-year-old husband...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 6, 2018 | Compassion, Limitless Possibilities, Never Lose Heart
It was a snowy February afternoon in 1956 in New Holland, Pennsylvania, the location of the largest horse auction east of the Mississippi every Monday for more than fifty years. Almost 400 horses were sold that afternoon. No horse was left unsold. The last bidder had...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Never Give Up, Never Lose Heart
July 1959 – Green Bay Packer Football Camp, Green Bay, Wisconsin: On a hot afternoon during the first week of the grueling two-a-day practices, fiery new Head Coach Vince Lombardi stopped practice and walked over to second-year guard Jerry Kramer who had once-again...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 2, 2018 | Compassion, Courage Under Fire, Never Lose Heart
July 1918: Harry Peter Henry “Pee Wee” Reese was born in Ekron, Kentucky. He was so small that he did not start on his high school baseball team. In 1938 he was playing in a church league where the local minor league baseball team, the Louisville Colonels, discovered...
