When Least Expected™Inspiration To Brighten Dark Days And Lonely Nights When All Seems Lost

This “revised” post now only contains the Prologue to Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness, “When Good People Become Great.” As time permits, I will begin posting brief excerpts from this introspective, inspirational story about “personal leadership” to inspire you to “face your fears and embrace Change.” Only then will you choose to take the next step necessary to make your “Big Dream” come true.

In the meantime, please feel free to peruse “The Archives” to see how far this humbled beginner has come by faith since January 1, 2007.  As many of you know, I didn’t “choose to write this book.” Over 10 years ago, this thought-provoking, 272 page book chose me.   If I can beat the odds with God’s help and choose to “keep risin’ to my feet after every fall I survived,” you can do the same.  The choice to do so will always be yours alone to make. So choose wisely.

“But by grace still go I.”

The Prologue — “Always Expect The Unexpected”

Quick question. Did reading the Prologue to Steppin’ Out Of the Darkness inspire you to sit up in your seat and say “Hmmmm” upon first glance?  Hopefully, what you found has peaked your curiosity about what else you’ll find beneath this book’s cover.

When time permits, post a comment to let me know if you felt inspired you to “finish writing the vision” you prematurely abandoned in the “valley of sun-dried bones” sometime “after the fall” you survived.

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“Be the better person. Let your actions be your poet. Be the bigger person. Everybody will know it.”

–The Leadership By Example Collection™

This bookmark is a brief excerpt that comes from a poem I penned shortly after the 1992 “civil unrest” that erupted in South Central Los Angeles after the pugnacious gang of Los Angeles police officers — who brutally beat Rodney King in 1991 — were all inexplicably “acquitted” and found “not guilty” by an “all-white” jury from Simi Valley, California.

Only by the grace of God, did Mr. George Holliday, an innocent bystander armed with a camera, have the presence of mind to capture this egregious act of police brutality on video tape. Hmmm. Let’s talk about innovative ways that we can become “proactive” instead of always being “reactive.”

Never forget that the cunning one who knows how to “make you mad” will become the oppressive agitator who will always — deliberately and with premeditation — find a way to “control” you and your mind to evoke yet another impulsive, knee-jerk reaction.

It’s time for the next generation of leaders to learn how to “turn the tables” in a proactive, non-violent manner so our dignified, unified actions can steer all God’s children away from the clear and present danger that’s still relentlessly stalking their gifted souls.

Quick question. Do you have the “inner core strength of character” that’s needed in order to take a bold, courageous stand in the menacing face of Adversity without fainting? Has “Struggle” made you strong enough to take a stand long enough to be the better person during such a heart-breaking season as this? Difficult? Most definitely! Impossibe? Not!

“Impossible ain’t nothing but a word to God.”

It’s a crying shame that, after so many years and wasted tears, power still concedes nothing without a struggle. I don’t know about you but I’m so sick and tired of watching our grieving mothers crying over the lifeless bodies of little children who are still dying for nothing.

Copyright © 1994-2007 by Roderick O. Solomon. All Rights Reserved.

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Best-selling author, motivational speaker, and “grown folks” radio talk show host, Mr. Michael Baisden, frequently shares the fact that reading and writing books created a paradigm shift that literally changed his life forever.

I’m one of the many literacy advocates and activists who agrees with Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu’s honest belief that “readers are leaders” and “learners are earners.”

“Illiteracy will hold the blindfold that blinds the great minds of today and allows Ignorance to kill, steal, and destroy the opportunities tomorrow brings.”

–Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness

Imagine how difficult life would be today if you couldn’t read. What book(s) did you read as a child that inspired you to raise the level of your thinking? How many books have you finished reading this year?

“Leaders Are Readers,” by Ms. Thea Westra, is a blog that I inadvertently failed to mention when I initially published this post.

Copyright 1997-2007 by Roderick O. Solomon. All Rights Reserved.

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Here’s another bookmark I created, while standing “on bended knee,” to remind my humbled soul that it’s difficult to experience a great fall when approaching humanity’s spiritual enemies from positions of power.

“On bended knee, strong men will continue to humble ourselves before the Most High and pray for the day when “equal justice under law” is no longer science fiction, but indeed, a reality.”

–Roderick O. Solomon

Copyright 1994-2007 by Roderick O. Solomon.  All Rights Reserved

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“It is by choice that great people like you with great weaknesses like ours believe, by faith, that we can beat impossible odds and achieve great things with God’s help.”

–From the book Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness

Copyright 2007 by Roderick O. Solomon. All Rights Reserved.

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In the early 1990’s, I created and published a popular series of bookmarks to encourage, empower, and inspire the next gifted generation of critically thinking leaders, our children. Here’s a sample of one of the many. I will share some of the others as time permits.

“When nobody believes in you, believe in yourself. If not you, then who?”

Copyright 2007 by Roderick O. Solomon. All Rights Reserved.

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