Have you ever stopped to evaluate the quality of your life? Today you can move toward the next level of enjoying your highest level of living. Life is more than existing. We merely exist when we live our lives without definition and divine purpose. To live life with definite purpose is to live life at its best, with the faith and the great expectations that bring us to our destiny of all we were meant to be and all we were predestined to experience.

These memoirs depict the triumphs of an African-American preacher's son in the segregated South who succeeds as a social activist, educator, founding pastor, and bishop. It tells remarkable stories of the "Old Folks" and the renowned social activists, educators, and religious leaders who in some way have touched the destiny of the whole human race. We shall never forget their legacy or their endless contributions of labor and love. We shall forever treasure their memory and dare not ever forget the urgency of their silent voices echoing to us "Carry on ... carry on ... carry on."

These 365 devotions are an English translation of the popular devotional, "Tagliche Andachten, the German version of "Portals of Prayer.