Manns Medium

I was blown away about a story written by Mike Miller for ijreveiw.com titled “News Anchor Makes Startling On-Air Announcement: He Only Has 4-6 Months To Live,” not because of any of the most thought of reasons like he was brave enough to share it with the audience or he may be seeking sympathy or increasing viewership.  I was blown away because it was only today that I was speaking to my own audience about the miracles average people perform every day. In the article Mr. Miller reports that “Champaign, IL, news anchor Dave Benton, 51, told viewers during a broadcast on Thursday that he has an inoperable brain tumor – and that doctors tell him he only has 4-6 months to live. The born-again Christian said he believes he is in God’s hands: “I am at peace and I know he’s going to take care of the days ahead and that the goal here is to have the best ones possible.” I was blown away because of what the article said toward the end “Stories like this one serve to remind...

Having spent a number of years in the United States Marines, I know a little about teamwork and nothing feeds the soul than to stand next to someone completely different than you but so similar and looking at the job to accomplish or complete knowing that you are doing it together as one.   Out of all of the stories that have been published or that will be published about the disaster in Japan this one gives me the greatest of hope. Eric Talmadge and Mari Yamaguchi wrote this for the Associated Press titled Japan official: Disasters overwhelmed government and one of the most touching points was in the very beginning when it reported that “t he Japanese government acknowledged Friday that it was overwhelmed by the scale of last week's twin natural disasters, slowing the response to the nuclear crisis that was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami that left at least 10,000 people dead.   The admission came as Japan welcomed U.S. help in stabilizing its overheated, radiation-...