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

A seven-year-old boy laughed one summer night 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 passed, but I’ll never forget that night when Dad held me 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.