Step out on nothing : how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges
Title:
Step out on nothing : how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges
Author:
Pitts, Byron.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
Physical Description:
viii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Summary:
The author outlines the disadvantages he overcame in the pursuit of his career, from his abandonment by his father in childhood and tough inner-city upbringing to his speech impediment and functional illiteracy.
General Note:
"Updated with a new chapter"--Cover.
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Mustard seed faith : with it you can move mountains -- Keep your head up -- Quiet discipline -- Who's got your back? -- The hands that pull you up -- Letters from home -- An angel from Estonia -- Never say I'll try, say I will -- It never gets easier, you just get stronger -- Valley of the shadow of death -- Love the least of us -- The power of prayer and optimism -- The power of forgiveness : when father and son talk as men -- Earthquake in Haiti : when life is unfair.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780312579999
Format :
Book
