by McArthur Williams | Jul 14, 2025 | Lessons, Musings
As I sit here and think about life, I want to scream and shout—but no one can hear my pain. Life has a way of beating a man down. There’s so much weight that a man carries daily, silently holding on to his soul. Yet, he won’t allow anyone to see him, not...
by McArthur Williams | Jul 14, 2025 | Lessons, Short Stories
A Story of Survival, Faith, and Transformation The month of March 2025 was a month to remember for me. A month of reckoning. A month that I was sick 19 out of 20 days. But March 20th—that day changed my life forever. It all started around March 6th. I wasn’t feeling...
by McArthur Williams | Jul 11, 2025 | Lessons, Short Stories
I lived in the city of Washington, D.C., for a while. Not the polished postcard version, but the part most people try to forget — Dodge City, they called it. And it lived up to the name. You didn’t just survive there. You learned to dodge everything: pain, bullets,...
by McArthur Williams | Jun 9, 2025 | Lessons
My Sunday started out like any other day. I woke up and wanted to make sure that my pants matched my shirt and shoes. I wanted to eat breakfast before we left to go to Sunday school at 9 a.m. I was staying the summer with my grandparents in Beckley, West...
by McArthur Williams | May 31, 2025 | Lessons, Short Stories
My personal journey It was Sunday, 05/25/2025. I sat in the room thinking. I was thinking about the way I had raised three of my six daughters. The day I received custody, I knew I had to change my life. In the beginning, I was a man who stayed in the street....
by McArthur Williams | May 20, 2025 | Lessons
Growing up, I was no different from anyone else. I ran with my friends, played basketball and football, got into fights, and chased after girls—you know, the normal things for a youngster. We thought we were going to live forever, and that death only happened to other...
