Challenges In Dick Wallrath's Journey

“Faith isn't a feeling. It’s a choice to trust God, even when the road ahead seems uncertain.” Faith isn’t a feeling, a song isn’t a song until it’s sung, a bell isn’t a bell until its rung, and love isn’t love until it’s given away. Those are words spoken from a great man with a great journey, with faith. That great man so happens to be Dick Wallrath. It took Dick to hit rock bottom, to crash and burn to realize that with faith he could overcome his many challenges in life, and mainly his personal demons, such as alcoholism, his family, and his career. Dick had multiple disputes with his family, causing them to leave him. Another challenge that Dick had to face in his journey would be that his career was slowly falling apart more and more. …show more content…
After Dick had become a father himself, he saw the resemblances that he had shared with his father and began to become abusive towards his own children. That caused Dicks drinking to skyrocket through the roof because he didn’t want to remember being anything like his father was. Drinking took away his pain, it took away the memories, it made him numb to everything. Dick had finally became so numb that the only thing that could even remotely be able to pick him up from the hole he was in, which kept getting deeper and deeper, would be faith. Alcohol had such a tremendous downhill affect of Dicks life, having not only his family walk out of his life but his career had also finally came to a crash and burn. When Dicks boss came to see how the house that Dick was supposedly building was going, he ended up catching Dick laying in a bathtub drunker than a sailor, where he had thrown up all over himself in. This had lead the boss to kick Dick to the curb. Dick was coming home to an empty house with no family, no dinner waiting on him that was cooked and ready to be eaten, no money, and one worried mama concerned that her baby won't be able to get …show more content…
now the last thing on his list would to be able to get his family back, but that didn’t go as he planned. His two sons finally quit because Dick was treating them like his sons instead of like partners. Shortly after Deede got married and gave birth to a baby boy, they found out she had a severe case of cancer. Dick prayed over and over that God would not take away his baby girl, but would take him away instead. Only for Dick to see the three white horses and he knew Deede would not have long. Dick needed something to get his mind off of things. Which he had started sponsoring hundreds of scholarships for 4H and FFA members. Dick had made dreams come true for young youth. He started out by buying a steer for 70 thousand dollars and made it possible for a little girl to do things that she would have never been able to do. For someone to hit rock bottom so hard, he was able to rise to the top and to become a respected and amazing man. Dick Wallrath has truly impacted my life in showing me that with faith and God’s guidance, I will be able to get over my biggest fears and to accomplish my dreams of becoming an Agricultural teacher. FFA has truly helped me through rough times and a bumpy road. To where the road is now forming in front of me. I would like to help influence others, to show them that there