by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 1, 2018 | Never Give Up, Overcoming Adversity, Refusing to Quit
January 21, 1912 – Key West, Florida: At 10:34 a.m. the train from Miami arrived at the new Key West depot. Joined by dignitaries from North and South America, eighty-two-year-old Henry Flagler, with tears in his eyes, sat on the front seat of the first passenger car....
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 29, 2018 | Overcoming Adversity, Rising Above Circumstances, Uncategorized, Underdogs
1926 – Masonic Home and School, Ft. Worth, Texas: The Masonic Home Orphanage, which sat on 200 acres in east Ft. Worth, was started in 1900 for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Free Masons. The facility, a lonely depressing place, was home for...
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 | Mar 29, 2018 | Finding Hope, Overcoming Adversity, Perserverance
On February 26, 1791, 88 years old and in failing health, Methodist theologian John Wesley penned a letter to his good friend in the faith, William Wilberforce. It was the last letter he ever wrote. Wesley, a long-time outspoken opponent of the British slave trade,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Dec 27, 2017 | Iron-willed, Never Lose Heart, Overcoming Adversity
1401 A.D. London, England: King Henry IV declared that religious heretics would be burned at the stake. Seven years later, the Roman Catholic Church, at that time England’s official church, used its considerable influence to have a law passed that made it a crime to...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Dec 13, 2017 | Determination Despite the Odds, Overcoming Adversity, Rising Above Circumstances
One hundred years before Elvis was the King of Rock & Roll, Aunt Fanny was the Queen of American Hymn Writers. She is arguably the most prolific songwriter of all time, having written over 8,000 hymns during her lifetime. Today, one hundred years after her death,...
