by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2018 | Adversity, Long Shots, Never Give Up, Uncategorized
November 16, 1926 – Farm in Coffee County, Alabama: After trying to resuscitate the premature baby boy, the doctor shook his head and placed the lifeless body on the table. The baby’s grandmother walked over, picked up the 10-day-old infant, and quietly pleaded and...
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 | Jun 25, 2018 | Compassion, Never Give Up, Uncategorized
Noon – Wednesday, September 23, 1857 – New York City: Jeremiah Lanphier waited in a small room on the third floor of the consistory building at the rear of the North Dutch Reform Church. The grand old church sat in the heart of the business district, just...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Compassion, Long Shots, Uncategorized
1904, Strasbourg, France: Albert Schweitzer, a 30-year-old Lutheran minister and theology professor at the University of Strasbourg, was paging through a Paris Missionary Society publication when he read an article by a doctor about the dire medical needs of people in...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 29, 2018 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Getting Fired, Uncategorized
Sunday, December 18, 1983 – Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Head Football Coach Lou Holtz had just returned from church when Athletic Director Franks Broyles called and asked him to come by his office. When Holtz arrived, Broyles got right to the point, “Lou, I want...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
August 1969 – Concord, California: Hal Donaldson’s father, a young Assembly of God preacher, was killed in a head on collision by a drunken driver on the way home from church. His mother was also in the car and was seriously injured, leaving 12-year-old Hal, his...
