Walking Through the Valley of the Shadows of Death
How to Prepare for the Worst Days of Your Life
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Many friends and co-workers have approached me over the last few years with questions concerning devastating life issues. Some of these people were Christians and so were not. The commonality of their situations was that they found very few people that they could confide in and even fewer who could offer any sound advice to comfort and guide them in dealing with their dilemma.
My desire is to offer you some specific guidance and counsel in “walking through” those “worst days of your life” situations by offering four business principles that are grounded in spiritual teaching:
1) Know your life’s mission/purpose.
2) View the situation in its proper perspective.
3) Take proactive steps now to prepare yourself of these situations which will come. (This requires an understanding of the concept of “Locus of Control” - the extent to whoch you believe or not not believe that you have control over the majority of things that happen to you in this life.)
4) Stay focused in times of trouble.
To this end, I will offer you a set of models that I believe will help you to emotionally and spiritually get though these troubling times.
The advice and counsel that I offer you is based on my personal experience, Christian teachings, and wisdom received from over 50 years of living. For this reason, I believe that this book can be a good “reference source” for you in times of trouble and despair. Although the examples I use in presenting the points are religion-based, that in no way should stop you from reading the book or considering the value of the points offered to you in dealing with these type of life situations if you are NOT a Christian. Why? Because they are also grounded in sound, academic “business principles”– the same quality of information that you would receive from any accredited college or university in
This book uses several stories from the Bible as the “background ” for conveying information on the principles to the religiously educated. I also add in a liberal amount of personal philosophy, values, and beliefs as “points of illustration” in demonstrating how I learned or applied the principles.
The first story is about Jesus and Peter, one of his original twelve disciples after the death and resurrection of Jesus. Peter and several of the others disciples are near the bank of the sea when Peter is too emotionally upset ro continue the conversation and says he's ging fishing. Not wanting to leave their friend alone, soon the others go with him. They fish...
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If you have ever played an organized sport, you know that to beat your opponent, you not only need to have a good team and proven skills - you also need a game plan or strategy BEFORE you enter the game. The same is true in the "game of life" - especially with regards to those situations that look like they could ruin you financially, emotionally, physically, or spiritually. Some self-help books offer you "prosperity training" or "get-rich-quick schemes", but very few, if any, offer you insight into "how to prepare-for-the-worst" that can happen to you. This book offers a "game plan" in this area of preparing yourself for life-threatening, life-changing situations. Using these principles, God has blessed me to overcome some unsurmountable obstacles: obtaining a doctorate degree with honors after making only "C"s and "D"s in high school; becoming an accomplished Air Traffic Controller with marginal math background training; Recovering from a near-fatal health condition in only three days! How did these things happen?
After months of soul-searching to understand it myself, the divine plan was given to me to to share with you. It is simple and has only four parts to it.
1) Develop a "Life Perspective" as soon as you can.
2) Learn to view the situation in its proper perspective.
3) Use all of the knowledge and truth of your Christian faith to see the reality of the present situation in order to take proactive steps to prepare yourself mentally and spiritually to carry you through the "valley of the shadow of death".
4) Stay focused in time of trouble by learning and following the steps of how to deal with the "End of Days" moments.
About the Author
Dr. Robert E. Kasey is the key principal of H&K Training and Consulting, a private consortium of business and training professionals specializing in organizational and human, capital development. He has assisted private, non-profit, and governmental organizations in developing mission and vision statements, establishing training programs, and in successfully developing and implementing major organizational culture changes as well as the effective use of managerial control techniques.
He is an accomplished behavioral scientist specializing in organization development, employee motivation, and leadership program development for obtaining strategic competitive advantage. He has conducted training seminar for such organizations as the International Association of Administrative Professionals, the N.C. Education Administrative Professionals, the North Carolina Emergency Medical Services Administrators, the Human Relations Council for the City of
Dr. Kasey has over twenty-five years of adult education experience and was a highly awarded Chief of Air Traffic Control Training during his 20 years of military service in the U.S. Air Force. He is also an accomplished academic educator and a senior adjunct professor. Dr. Kasey teaches business courses for three prominent colleges/universities: North Carolina Wesleyan College of Rocky Mount North Carolina, Mount Olive College (Washington, N.C. Cluster) and Nova Southeastern University of Fort Lauderdale Florida, where he has taught extensively in
Dr, Kasey holds a Masters Degree in Business Management from