The Good News - July 2009 Miami Issue
16 pages
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PICTURE PERFECT?
Photographer recognized for
work covering strife in
Guatemala pg.
6
FAMILYWARRIORS
Local men make a stand to
fight for their families and their
faith pg.
4
NO MORE MEDIOCRITY
Stop waiting for...
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INSIDE www.
GoodNewsFL.
org
PICTURE PERFECT?
Photographer recognized for
work covering strife in
Guatemala pg.
6
FAMILYWARRIORS
Local men make a stand to
fight for their families and their
faith pg.
4
NO MORE MEDIOCRITY
Stop waiting for your ship to
come in.
Instead, swim out to
meet it pg.
9
LIVESON FIRE
Fightingfiresisn’teasy
work,butsomerescue
workersgetfiredupabout
servingpeopleinneed.
By Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
THE GOOD NEWS
A typical day in the life of a fire
rescue worker is anything but ordinary.
From blazing infernos and car
accidents to heart attacks and fall
victims, firefighters and paramedics
never quite know what to expect when
the next call comes in.
These rescue workers seem to
exemplify John 15:13 – “Greater love has
no one than this, than to lay down one’s
life for his friends” – by risking their lives
in order to save their fellow man.
Although these heroes have been
praised and recognized more since Sept.
11, 2001, their work still pushes them to
the limits of physical exhaustion and
emotional fatigue.
However, some local firefighters
have something special to keep them
going when they reach their breaking
point: The Lord.
For one local man, becoming a
firefighter was an answer to prayer.
After years of financial difficulties and
struggling to support his wife and three
children, Dania Beach Firefighter and
Paramedic Aaron Guest realized that his
family could not continue to survive on a
lifeguard’s salary.
So, he asked God to
show him which path to take.
“I felt that God ultimately had a
bigger and better plan for my life.
I
remember times in my life when I would
just cry out to God for help.
When I
think back to all the times that I thought
I was alone in this world, I realize now
that God never left my side for a single
moment,” states Guest.
Guest’s uncle pointed him in the
right direction by encouraging him to
pursue fire rescue school.
His uncle also
gave the family a vehicle and paid the
down payment on a new home for the
Guests.
“God put people in my life that – if
they weren’t there and He didn’t give me
the strength – then I wouldn’t be where
I am today,” he says.
Now that his life and career are in a
better place, Guest uses his job to help
others who are in difficult situations.
“I feel like this is what I was meant
to do in life,” he says.
“These people who
we meet on the calls, you know that they
are already having problems.
… On top
of not feeling well or an accident, now
they are thinking about how much the
hospital is going to cost, who will watch
their kids and all of life’s other stressors.
I want them to feel as comfortable and
[as] close to home as possible when they
are in our truck.
I try to encourage them
and tell them that God has a purpose
and a plan for them, and I watch as
something very powerful happens.
”
Guest began to reach out to others
more at work after he read a book
entitled “Sirens for the Cross” written by
Port.
St.
Lucie Firefighter and Paramedic
Tommy Neiman.
go to ON FIRE p.
5
Dania Beach Firefighter and Paramedic Aaron Guest
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