by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 14, 2018 | Perserverance, Persistence
U.S. Marine Colonel John Folsom, the top-ranking officer at Camp Al-Taqaddum near Falujah, Iraq, was accustomed to waking up to the sound of helicopter rotors. But on this particular Sunday morning in May 2008, he was awakened by an unusual sound, “hee-haw, hee-haw,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 12, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Perserverance
Lee and Melissa got married in August 1992, and moved to Nashville the very same week. Knowing that writing and music were part of his DNA, Lee was excited to be working for his old buddy Dave Clark at First Verse Music and writing Christian gospel songs. He got a big...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2018 | Adversity, Against the Odds, Perserverance, Uncategorized
The baby boy was born to a slave woman in a one-room shanty on the Moses Carver plantation about the time the Civil War was ending in 1865. The exact date and year of his birth are unknown. Moses Carver, a German immigrant farmer in Diamond Grove, Missouri, had...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2018 | Perserverance, Persistence
After Dwight L. Moody preached at the New Court Congregational Church in North London in June 1872, a young woman went home and told her bed-ridden sister, “Mr. Moody from America preached at our church this morning.” Marianne Adlard, the bed-ridden sister, shouted...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Dec 20, 2017 | Chasing Your Dream, Long Shots, Perserverance
In 2000, the World War II veterans group to which Ernie Andrus belonged decided to tackle the restoration of a WWII LST ship. Andrus’ interest in the project was piqued by the fact that for 18 months he had served as a medic aboard such a vessel in the South Pacific....
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 21, 2017 | Adversity, Against the Odds, Perserverance
It was as bad a North Atlantic storm as Captain Christopher Jones had ever seen. For several weeks, intermittent gales kicking up thirty, and occasionally fifty-foot waves, had pounded his small sailing ship. A seasoned captain, having spent half his life at sea, he...
