Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping. In If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America, author Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl guides readers through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice that has long fascinated scholars yet remains a mystery to many observers. Debies-Carl argues that legend trips are important social practices. Unlike traditional rites of passage, they reflect the modern world, revealing both its problems and its virtues. In society as well as in legend tripping, there is ambiguity, conflict, crisis of meaning, and the substitution of debate for social consensus. Conversely, both emphasize individual agency and values, even in spiritual matters. While people still need meaningful and transformative experiences, authoritative, traditional institutions are less capable of providing them. Instead, legend trippers voluntarily search for individually meaningful experiences and actively participate in shaping and interpreting those experiences for themselves.

You must love a child from the time the sperm unites with the egg and tell yourself, aEURoeI would make up my mind that I would love the child all my life regardless of physical characteristics, mental abilities, and personality or anything the child might say or do.aEUR Reading this book should convince you that if we are to raise children to be successful, we must first teach them what success is. I believe there is no true success without complete commitment to and complete faith in God. We should start teaching our children the right way to go from the day they are born. In fact, we must start long before they are born so that both the parents and the child will be prepared to learn the way to live from the beginning. If we wait until the child is a teenager to teach them these things, it may be too late. Also, with the love of Christ in our hearts, we must set the right examples of responsibility, honesty, integrity, work ethics, and the like, especially because the child is born with the instinct to be like the parents. We must teach our children to love America. Not just respect it but to really love and appreciate our great country as well. Our children should be loved the same whether they have an IQ of l80 or they struggle to make passing grades. We must love them just the same if they have physical or mental impairments. We must warn them of the evils of alcohol, drugs, sex outside of marriage, greed, selfishness, and all the other sins, which keep them from having a successful life.