Live courageously from your heart!
A man on the street with no place to call home.
A cocaine addict, spending all he has to get stoned.
A family in chaos, being torn apart.
A woman all-alone, nothing but a broken heart.
Children on the street with no place to go.
Sometimes this world can be oh, so cold.
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I had the honor of being a guest on a Fire Press Radio podcast with missionary and author Steve Bremner. Join our conversation as we walk through places in my book Heartstone: A Journey Out of the Midnight of My Soul and some things I learned from life’s struggles.
As I was reflecting on my journey, I thought to myself, can God take the clutter of our lives, with everything seemingly stacked against it and redeem it?
One clear and peaceful Autumn morning on my way to work I stopped at the final red light before turning into the parking lot. Tapping my fingers on the steering wheel I looked at the car beside me as my scattered thoughts swirled around in my head sorting out the velocity of life. Then out of the corner of my eye I catch the scene of falling leaves. I watched one by one as each leaf swirled to the ground as life happened in the backdrop. I tell you, I got caught up and lost in this scene…unplugging from the business of life for a moment.
The trees were proudly parading their vivid colors that warm and inviting autumn day in October of 2003 as I headed out to Orange, Massachusetts, to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Upon my arrival to the jump school, an employee with a detached personality and a large Mohawk haircut handed me a phonebook-size bundle of paperwork so I could begin the long process of signing my life away; so I wouldn’t hold the jump school responsible if I ended up a human pancake.
If that wasn’t enough, the whole family decided to show up to see if I would really follow through with this incredibly crazy stunt, which meant there was no way I could chicken out. You know, we men have our pride.
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Some of the content here on Heartstone Journey deals with some of the tougher stuff in life. Sometimes it’s good to share some of the lighter moments in life. Check out this this YouTube video of a couple at gas pump convinced to sing on live TV for free gas.
Would you do this?
Enjoy and hopefully this puts a smile on your face for the rest of your day 🙂
