The Passion Model
How Do You Survive the Unsurvivable?
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In 1995, Lance Corporal Zachary Mayo, struggling to get to sleep onboard the aircraft carrier USS America, got up past midnight early Saturday morning to get some fresh air. As the carrier was slowly turning, hundreds of miles out to sea, a wind suddenly picked up and propelled a swinging metal door, knocking Lance Corporal Mayo off the side of the ship and five stories down into the Arabian Sea. Mayo immediately plunged feet first into the depths of the ocean. When his head broke the surface of the water, he was just a few feet from the fast passing carrier, from which he vigorously swam away so as not to get sucked under. Then, in the silence of the night and under the vast multitude of blazing stars light years away, floating in complete darkness, the only other lights he saw came from the 81,000-ton USS America disappearing into the distance. Zachary Mayo, the 20 year old Marine, later told reporters that he “began putting his Marine training to use by tying his pants in a knot and inflating them to use as a life preserver.” Then he floated for 36 hours in one of the most shark infested bodies of water on the planet.
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The Passion Model is fleshed out from that twenty-four-hour period of Christ's life called the Passion, through which He experienced struggle, torture, and ultimately, victory. Christ's Passion provides a clear path for us to navigate through our own life and death struggles and eventually overcome our worst obstacles and fears on our way to victory, peace, and spiritual resilience and fortitude.
About the Author
My wife told me a few years ago that I shouldn't write my first book until I was forty years old because then I would have the experience to say something meaningful. I'm forty-five now, and I think I have a few things to say that are meaningful and hopefully transforming to all who read. I also have twenty-five years of ministry experience in both the military and civilian worlds and am about to reach my ten thousandth counseling session.
My wife and I enjoy raising our six children—five daughters and one son—together. We wish we would have met each other ten years earlier and had more kids; that's how much we love our family and sharing this amazing journey of life together. We currently live in Texas but are moving to Japan in the near future.