Hero Message from Her Son RJ

Here is a poignant Best Hero Message from:
Cheryl Williams Oliver

LOVE ALWAYS REMAINS

"I had a conversation with my oldest son, RJ, as he was getting ready to move out for the first time. I explained that I was sorry if I had not given him the things he wanted, apologized that him and his father divorced - all the typical hope I did well stuff. He told me: "Being a momma is not what you gave me - - it's the love you have in your heart! You gave me more love than I ever hoped for. You are the best momma ever". That was in 2001 - he was killed 2/9/06. Momma's heart is still full of love. RJ is and always will be my hero."

Blessings to you Cheryl and to RJ

Another Hero Message

Wal Achmueller



"I've recently heard something like:
'Just be and do yourself - because everybody else has already been taken' (don't remember where)
I love that, because that is exactly what my 8th grade teacher Walde Ingrid has instilled in me, and it has often in life given me courage to be authentic - she was my hero."

Well whoever said that IS a HERO!

Thanks for reminding us to live our true lives Wal.

Remember who you are... a hero in disguise.

Terri Marie

The Hero Calls

Jim Niemiec


(Terri Marie) with my two favorite people, Jim and Brooke



The Hero Calls

We never know when the hero is going to make a call. Are you ready?

My daughter usually calls me when she is driving back from California.
But it was Sunday night and no call. I figured Brooke was tired from
a long weekend of a lot of driving and going to the hospital to visit her
husband's mother who just had surgery.

In the morning I got the call from Brooke and found out if was the hero
who had called the evening before. Brooke told me, "Mom I have one
more reason I'm glad I married Jim. He just saved someone's life."
She told me the story.

They were driving back from Fallbrook, California on the I-15
when a Ford Explorer passed them on the right.
Jim watched as the driver lost controland rolled his vehicle
off the freeway. It landed upside down.

Jim immediately stopped and ran over along with two other men.
The drivers' fourteen-year old daughter was also in the car.
Somehow she managed to get herself out.
Brooke could hear her crying.

Jim and the other two men accessed the situation. Jim had
training from the Army. One of the others had worked in a
hospital The driver was pinned upside down. Jim ran back
to the car to get water. The seat beltthat probably saved
the drivers' life was now choking himand he couldn't breath.
The driver's head was at a 90 degreeangle pressed against
the roof. Once Jim and the othersconfirmed that the man
could still move his toes, they gentlylifted him down
onto the inside roof of the car. It was thenthat Jim saw
that the driver had a massive head wound. They needed
to stop the bleeding right away. Jim ran back
to the car again and got a blanket and some towels which
he wrapped around the man's head to slow down the blood loss.

Then Jim did the most heroic thing of all. He got inside the
vehicle, laid next to the man, took the driver's hand and told him
to squeeze his hand to let Jim know he understood him.
Jim told the driver that he too, had rolled his vehicle up on
the I-5 and survived. He told the driver that he was going
to make it. The driver squeezed his hand. Over and over
Jim kept talking and encouraging the man to remain as
alert and conscious as he could.
The driver kept squeezing Jim's hand.

Even in the days of cell phones, it took the police 20 minutes
to get to the scene to divert traffic. It took the ambulance
over 30 minutes. Jim stayed talking and reassuring the driver.
"You're going to be okay," Jim said. The squeezes continued
as the man connected to the lifeline Jim was offering to him.

My son-in-law is a very calm, self-assured young man who
I am very proud of. When times demand a strong and
selfless character, one finds out what is really inside
the person. Jim is a hero. The heroic opportunity arose.
Jim rose to the challenge.

That day Jim showed his true character. He gave what
was needed as a hero would: Unconditional service and
love to a man who would have died without it.

In a time when some people are complaining about the
youth of our country, I have this to say. "America is in good hands,"
thanks to people like Jim and the other fellows who gave
of themselves to save and comfort someone is in desperate need.
Hurray for the young heroes of America.


That is Jim. A hero.


Live like a hero.

The Hero is calling.
Are you ready?

Remember who you are!
Terri Marie

Copyright 2009 White Wing Entertainment

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LESSONS OF THE HERO CALL

1. Be Prepared.
Jim always travels with towels, blankets, water, and money.
I’m sure someone could have improvised without a towel to
stop the bleeding, or a blanket to keep the driver warm,
but this made it much easier. By the way, the money was
spent on buying some new clothes when Jim stopped at a
store to wash off.

2. Remain Calm.
The only way you can help someone in a dire situation
is to think. Access the situation and take things
one step at a time. Prioritize needs. The seat belt needed to
come off the man first. Then the bleeding needed to be stopped.
Then he needed the encouragement to hang on until he could
get to the hospital. That takes calmness and thinking.

3. Focus.
There is a complete focus in the heroic act. Attention and
energy is given to the situation of the best ways to increase
survival. A laser-like focus to do the best thing is what is needed.
There was no thought of normal concerns like
getting home or the inconvenience of the time this took.
It was all a mute point when it comes down to the
bluntness of life.

4. Connect.
Equally as important as removing the seatbelt and stopping
the bleeding was the connection Jim gave to this man.
Jim gave the wounded man his attention, energy,
and compassion.

5. Be Willing to Take a Selfless Risk to Help.
Jim told my daughter Brooke to stay in the car for various
reasons. But Brooke was concerned watching this unfold
that the vehicle might explode. She had to trust that Jim
knew what he was doing and would probably be able to
tell if that was a possibility. When the hero calls, the
hero does what needs to be done regardless of risk.
It is a total giving of oneself to help sustain the
life of another.

That is Jim. A hero.

Live like a hero.

Terri Marie

The Sedona Path

Recently I took a hike in
the beautiful red rocks
surrounding Sedona.
All along the path are pikes of
stone markers just to make sure
you stay on the path.

They are certainly helpful when the
woods get dense or there are several
possible choices to take.

There really are markers placed
along the spiritual path.
Sometimes we see the next marker.
Sometime we don't.
But they are there.

Sometimes we are paying such close
attention to what's going on around us
that we miss a critical marker, get lost
and have to come back.

Often we just have to step out in faith
that another marker will be there for us.

Those markers are put there for us
on our path: the spiritual path
designed specifically for us.


You can never lose a marker,
although you can lose sight of one.
It is your path.
You are the only one to walk it.


Meanwhile...Let the path take you
toward your destiny.


Remember who you are!

Terri Marie

A Hero's Resolutions

Resolutions of a Hero
Terri Marie


By now many of us have forgotten the “newness” of the year
and have become swept away in the relentless flow of 2008.
If we keep in mind the qualities that are needed in our new
world of vast and rapid changes, we can better ride with joy
the wave of change that is occurring all around us. That is
to travel through life as a hero does.

If a hero were to make resolutions what would be on the list?
For the hero in you, the part of you that does want to approach
each moment with freshness, I have compiled this list.

1. I Resolve to Empower Not Just Help.
To empower is to build the human master blocks for a
better world where everyone is truly needed and respected.
Scott McOwen, (a past Hero of the Month and continual hero)
empowers people and business to grow into their true success
by gifting them with inner tools that are used to create outer
success in the business game. Scott puts a piece of his life
knowledge into the business spirit of those he helps. Scott empowers.

2. I Resolve to Listen Inward.
Pay more attention to the things that inspire a hero.
Remember Dr. Frances Mead-Messinger’s (another Hero of the Month)
thought in the orphanage about how she must help the other
little girls there. That was an inspired thought. We all have great
thoughts, but most flit quickly away unless we catch the thought
and give it life through us. Listen for your inspired thoughts.

3. I Resolve to Emulate Other Heroes.
We all have those we admire and wish to model. All heroes
that you respect have built on the success and traits of heroes
they admired. This creates a wonderful chain of heroes.
Choose your heroes wisely.

4. I Resolve to Choose the High Form of Courage – “en” not “dis.”
To encourage is to “enable. empower and enrich” a life.
To discourage is to “distract, displace, and disturb” a hero’s energy.
Encourage every potential hero you see, “en”cluding yourself.

5. I Resolve to Be a Bit Outrageous.
To reach the divine you need a touch of madness. Like a pinch
of salt added to a recipe, it adds more heroic flavor to our
personality. Heroes aren’t meek, only when in disguise like
Clark Kent. True heroes stand strong with great tenacity of spirit,
supported with a shield of truth, which allows truth through,
but banishes deception.

6. I Resolve to Give Joy.
Heroes Serve Joy. Do you think your circumstances excuse
you from feeling joy and serving joy to your self and others?
Watch the “Life is Beautiful” movie. Tell me that isn’t one of the
most heroic things you’ve ever seen. Joy in the midst of despair
is the most perfect and pure joy there is.

7. I Resolve to Serve Hope. Ann Frank is a great example of this.
While Ann did not last very long after writing her timeless words
of hope, those words from her spirit, her gift of hope did. The
hope you serve to others will live far beyond whatever else you
may serve them– except Love. Hope is a child of love.

8. I Resolve to Develop My Intuition.
Heroes use intuition not just their mind and heart in making
decisions. It’s an extra ingredient that encourages and empowers.
Your intuition knows the best answers for you.

9. I Resolve to See More Options.
Heroes see more options when they rate a challenge.
More opportunities become aware to them that can result in
solutions, often with unexpected beneficial byproducts.
A hero is reborn every moment with each independent choice.

10. I Resolve to Keep Going.
When heroes feel like quitting, they go just a little farther.
It’s the tiny increments, when we normally quit or turn back,
that break us through to new levels. It’s where every successful
person I know made their breakthrough. Just one more try.
Yoda said, “Do or do not. There is no try.’ In spite of his cuteness
and wisdom, I believe in trying. Try it out. Then if it doesn’t work,
try something else. We try on clothes. We try out furniture.
“Try” can lead to doing.
Taking a better aim turns “try” into “do” into “success.”

11. I Resolve to Make Time.
Heroes expand time. They “make” time. Heroes know that
opportunity is waiting around every corner of time. Each moment
of being aware brings great potential for a miracle and
heroes make time for them.

12. I Resolve to Allow the Life Force to Move Through Me.
We all can do this. It depends on how open we are as the
vessels of life. In a moment of service, heroes don’t forget
about themselves. They transcend themselves. There they reach a
new energy – the Hero Energy. The soul of the hero. This is
being truly alive. It is a new resolution of life.

We are almost at the end of the second month of 2008 already.
That didn’t take long at all did it? 60 days of consistently using
a new thought or habit will “set” it in your brain and psyche.

“Try” each one of these resolutions for 30 days apiece.
There’s one for every month of the year. Put the hero resolutions
into your life and you can become the hero that will change the world.

Resolve to Live Like the Hero You Are!

Terri Marie
Award-winning author of “Be the Hero of Your Own Game”
www.spiritualarena.com