How many times a day do you ask how someone is doing? How often do you hear someone ask you how you’re doing, and you answer it with very little thought? How often do you stop and think how things are really going for you? How do you know when it’s Time for a Change in your life?
The true stories in this book have a wide variety of answers to these questions — a lot of troubles that have made the storytellers aware of their need for a change: brushes with death. Cancer. Addictions. Broken relationships. Death of relatives. Confinement in a mental institution. Abandonment. The run-around of the foster system. The nightmare of war. Unemployment. Abortion. A close friend’s suicide. Anorexia and bulimia. These are stories filled with many twists and turns and plenty of heartaches.
Through the intensity of these twists and turns, each of these storytellers has come to a personal Time for a Change. Read the book and see what the change has meant for these people — and then get ready to meet them, because some of them are your neighbors at Light on the Corner Church in Montrose, California!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Sink or Swim: Real Life Stories on the Clearwater. The Life Center. Kamiah, ID.
Ed Jacoby aspired to very little. Perpetuating wild pranks was always more fun than studying.
During his freshman year at the University of Idaho, he partied his grade point average down to 1.0. Flunking out, he took a job at a tire and rubber company, ended up in a body cast, lost his job – and drowned his misery in alcohol.
Ed was sinking fast.
Then his new wife, Jean, threw him a life buoy. “What do you really want to do?” she asked.
He hesitated, remembering a dream. “Coach.”
“Then, let’s make you a coach.”
His father-in-law said, “If you’re going to coach, I expect you to be a very good one — an Olympic coach.”
Like that’s ever gonna happen, Ed thought.
Seven stories, nine “swimmers” gasping for air in voracious life-sucking whirlpools. They crash against jagged rocks — cheap sex, deaths of loved ones, abandonment, suicide attempts, drug additions, impending long prison terms, killers chasing them — and each search the shoreline for a rescue team. Will they find a lifeline? Will they sink — or swim?
During his freshman year at the University of Idaho, he partied his grade point average down to 1.0. Flunking out, he took a job at a tire and rubber company, ended up in a body cast, lost his job – and drowned his misery in alcohol.
Ed was sinking fast.
Then his new wife, Jean, threw him a life buoy. “What do you really want to do?” she asked.
He hesitated, remembering a dream. “Coach.”
“Then, let’s make you a coach.”
His father-in-law said, “If you’re going to coach, I expect you to be a very good one — an Olympic coach.”
Like that’s ever gonna happen, Ed thought.
The raging waters, with turbulent twists, take the Jacobys to a place beyond anyone’s craziest imaginations.
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Seven stories, nine “swimmers” gasping for air in voracious life-sucking whirlpools. They crash against jagged rocks — cheap sex, deaths of loved ones, abandonment, suicide attempts, drug additions, impending long prison terms, killers chasing them — and each search the shoreline for a rescue team. Will they find a lifeline? Will they sink — or swim?
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