No one goes through life without a "storm" or two. Everyone experiences hardship, loss, stress, deprivation or some other crisis that impacts or maybe controls their life. With outside influences beyond their control mounting in the current socio-economic, military and terrorist threats, decline in morals, depression and a host of other issues too large to deal with alone, millions are seeking answers and spiritual solace. This book takes the reader through 12 steps or storm preparation and storm survival chapters using biblical teaching to bring forth insight, encouragement and the reality...

The life story of Hoppy, a troubled and lonely young boy growing up in Muncie, Indiana in the 1950's and '60's. While in a boy's reformatory at age nine for one too many thefts, his mother succumbs to cancer on his tenth birthday. With the whereabouts of his father unknown and no relatives, he is sent to an orphanage. After four years there he runs away, exchanging the sternness of the institution for the brutality of the streets and a life of drug dealing and theft. Immersed in this captivating life he almost loses his life at age 15 during a drug deal gone bad. His life takes one agonizing...

In growing up in post-World War II America, there seemed to be much less for me and my neighborhood chums to worry about. It was a time when the simple pleasures of life family, friends, church, sports and the great outdoors sufficed to keep one's mind, body and spirit healthily occupied for hours and days at a time. Tis is a reminiscence and often whimsical recall of a different time in America; a time when life seemed slower, more complete a time when children were allowed to be truly and completely just children without being rushed into adulthood prematurely. The content of each short...