This topsy-turvy world challenges your calm every day.
Yet, one unfailing step reclaims serenity.
Feeling topsy-turvy? Capture calm every time in one powerful decision
Hope
Hope: 3 Powerful Strategies to Conquer Life’s Toughest Obstacles
Would you still have hope if the greatest of all tragedies struck you down?
Katherine Wolf does even though, at age 26 to date (now 42), she has survived . . .
- a catastrophic brain-stem stroke
- paralysis throughout her body
- numerous falls with broken bones
- aneurysm surgery unrelated to her stroke
- multiple vertebral artery dissections
- ongoing neurological issues
- hearing loss
- blind in the left eye and double vision in the right eye
In spite of all this, she proclaims hope as she . . .
- just published her third book, Treasures In The Dark
- travels nationwide, speaking to thousands
- sponsors a special-needs summer camp
- opened a coffee shop staffed by special-needs folks
I heard her speak at a jam-packed Highland Park Presbyterian church service months ago. Her testimony has changed my life.
After reading her books and reflecting on what she says about hope, I see three proven relievers for overcoming despair.
Continue Reading “Hope: 3 Powerful Strategies to Conquer Life’s Toughest Obstacles”How the solar eclipse increases your hope and faith
Everyone is filled with hope they’ll see totality in the solar eclipse.
Reminds us of the sun’s immense power.
Power that is overwhelming yet uniquely toned down by our ocean.
Why is the sun’s power toned down?
Our seawater has an amazing filter that unexplainably accommodates living organisms.
How does this happen? Why does this happen?
Pause just a minute and allow three messages from the solar eclipse to rekindle your faith and hope.
Continue Reading “How the solar eclipse increases your hope and faith”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 . . .
- love of God reflected through volunteers
- water and sun dancing off inner tubes
- ZUP boards and smiling faces
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.
Continue Reading “Rising from the Ashes: How to Turn Your Pain into Beauty”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.
Continue Reading “Three ways a father can supercharge kids with starry hope”