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Four
Growing
Through
Fire and Ice
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAMOver the years, any leader out on the point will come up against events that either dra-
matically deepen the person or generate bitterness of soul. As Colin Powell and others have
said, “Command is lonely.”
Billy Graham has experienced plenty of the travail common to leadership. These chap-
ters candidly explore very human dynamics:
Summoning Courage
Learning from Failure
Experiencing Trauma and Betrayal
Redeeming the Ego
In each of these four chapters we see how he responded to realities, then kept on
leading. Clearly, he has been among those whom the process has humbled, sensitized,
and deepened.