"We want lives of simple, predictable ease—smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see
—but God likes to go off-road"

- Tony Snow


Tony Snow (1955-2008). He was not only President Bush's press secretary from 2006-2007, a broadcaster with Fox News, a journalist and newsman, but also a committed Evangelical Christian. Tony Snow died Saturday, July 12.

Many times, testimonies do not come from easy, cushy, everything is alright with me type lives. This reflects a general rule of life -Trials produce unexpected blessings.

Tony Snow wrote this in July. He had just resigned as the President's Press Secretary because of his ongoing battle with cancer. In ChristianityToday he wrote an article reflecting on lessons he has learned and is continuing to learn. Here is an excerpt from that article: Cancer's Unexpected Blessings

The moment you enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, things change. You discover that Christianity is not something doughy, passive, pious, and soft. Faith may be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But it also draws you into a world shorn of fearful caution. The life of belief teems with thrills, boldness, danger, shocks, reversals, triumphs, and epiphanies.

4 wheeling anybody?!! ~ Ray