My favorite song of the year sparks joy despite our suffering.
It powers your spirit through daily struggles to victory.
Joy is not natural or easy when pain and suffering pile up.
But MAJOR shines four bright lights leading our way.
Continue Reading ““Joy in the Battle”: The top song that carries us through suffering” 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 . . .
In spite of all this, she proclaims hope as she . . .
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” The movie, Top Gun Maverick, is second only to another Top Gun maverick, Captain Charles Plumb.
About two decades before Tom Cruise catapulted into the silver screen, Charlie Plumb was trained by the late Sen. John McCain to fly the F4 Phantom Jet.
“Top Gun started by accident. My buddy and I were wandering down the pipeline and saw they had F9s, which we had already flown during training. We would save a little gas at the end of each flight and work our way up the coast of San Diego and wait for the F4 Phantoms to come by. Until one day, there was a note on the bulletin board for my buddy and me to report to our commanding officer immediately. He asked if it was us who followed an F4 Phantom through an entire loop with guns on them the entire time because he was in that F4. He asked us if we wanted to go out again tomorrow and fight them, and that is how the whole Top Gun school began.” Charlie Plumb
After 74 successful combat missions and just five days before the end of his military service, Plumb was shot down over Hanoi, Vietnam in 1967.
Captured and tortured, Charlie turned his suffering into a lifelong motivational message for success.
Continue Reading “How a Top Gun Captain Converts Suffering Into Glory” Deliverance from your dark suffering is closer than you think.
In fact, suffering loses its scary grip when lighting four eye-opening fuses.
Continue Reading “How to Invite God Into Your Gloomy Dark Suffering” Let’s run from all the madness in the world.
“I wish there were some wonderful place called the land of beginning again where all of my heartaches and all of my woes could be dropped like a dirty old coat at the door and never be put on again.” Author Unknown
So, why not run to the Land of Beginning Again.
You can enter right where you are, even when suffering.
Continue Reading “Run to the Land of Beginning Again”