Rising from the Ashes: How to Turn Your Pain into Beauty

Foster and special-needs kids rise above their pain every summer at Skiin’ With The Galilean (SWTG).

The Christian water sports camp shines a light on beauty for everyone involved.

The beauty of hope.

Hope is in the . . .

Like a Lego kit, SWTG offers broken kids valuable pieces to rebuild their lives.

Three pieces that fix broken lives work well for all of us.

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Three ways a father can supercharge kids with starry hope

Fishing one summer night, a seven year-old boy laughed when his father held him high to the stars.

“Look son!”

Just then, a white flame skirted across the astonished heavens.

And then another star skipped across and dipped into the lake.

“What’s happening dad?”

“Shooting stars. They show up every summer, usually late July and August. It’s really something.”

Decades have past, but I’ll never forget that night when dad held me up to the stars.

No doubt, I have many memories with Claude Blaising.

But, that night was special. It reminds me of three things kids need most in a dad.

Three success secrets are forever etched in our hearts by American troops on D-Day.

They are on full display by the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion.

Their mission was to protect Allied soldiers from the Luftwaffe.

They overcame horror and danger with a success formula we can use today.

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