Keep Climbing

"Preacher, you ain't always been a preacher!" Those words were exclaimed by a teenager at a church youth fellowship, after several rounds of pool with his pastor Dr. Al Daniell. And he was right; the author of this book, now retired pastor, Al Daniell, "AIN'T ALWAYS BEEN A PREACHER!" With only minimal experience hiking and absolutely no experience in rock climbing, the author says he has much experience in falling down and getting up again. "The 'getting up' is the hardest part", writes the author, "but when I have trusted Christ to reach down and lift me up; He has lifted me up, brushed me off, and helped me to KEEP CLIMBING." Like reading a diary or journal, readers instantly feel a personal connection with familiar emotions and memories in regard to family, childhood, love, and disappointment. This book is a compilation of selected articles from the "Keep Climbing" series that have appeared in a middle Georgia newspaper, The Dodge County News, for more than twenty-five years. During that time span, Dr. Daniell wrote about major world events as they were happening; including the "advent of social media", the Oklahoma City bombing, the spacecraft "Pathfinder" landing on Mars, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Columbine School shooting, the killing of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden and, most significantly, the horrific 911 attack on the World Trade Center twin towers. Devotional in nature, his writings will surely bring back memories, while providing encouragement for everyday life.