Introduction

Always liked Mitch Albom outspokenness on the ESPN show, The Sports Reporter.

Liked him even more upon reading his book, “Tuesday with Morrie”.

Was blessed today seeing him in a movie someone posted on YouTube.

The name of the movie is “Have a little Faith“.

Profile

1. Sports Reporter
   • 13 times Associated Press ( AP ) Reporter of the Year
2. Charity
   • 7 Charities in Detroit alone
   • 1 in the Philippines
   • 1 in Haiti
     • Spends 4 days each Month in Haiti
     • Most amazing experience in my life
     • For someone who was not blessed with Children this is the closest I will ever get of Children of my own
     • Yes, I have nieces and nephews that I adore, but these kids need me

Videos

Interviews

1. CBS News
   • Mitch Albom on the intersection of life and death
     During the past 20 years few people have changed the conversation about the intersection of life and death more than author Mitch Albom.
     Jane Pauley sits down with the “Tuesdays With Morrie” author for a wide-ranging chat about a life well-lived.
     • YouTube
       • Video #1
         Link
2. Chicago Ideas
   • Mitch Albom: Making Each Moment Matter
     How will we find happiness and meaning? Author Mitch Albom shares the invaluable life lessons his dying teacher taught him in this behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration behind Albom’s best-selling book “Tuesdays with Morrie
     • YouTube
       • Video #1
         Published On: – 2013-April-16th
         Link
3. Super Soul Sunday
   • Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations – Mitch Albom: The Dying Know the Secrets to a Good Life
     • YouTube
       • Video #1
         Published On: – 2017-Dec-16th
         Link
4. Henry Covington & Mitch Albom
   • Henry Covington
     • Profile
       • Mitch Albom and Henry Covington addressing a crowd in San Jose, CA from ministryresources.org
     •  YouTube
       • Video #1
         Link

Movies

1. Lifetime
   • Have a little faith
     • YouTube
       • Lifetime movie 2017 – Have a Little Faith – Based on a Novel
         • Video #1
           Published On :- 2017-May-19th
           Link
         • Video #2
           Link
           Published On :- 2017-April-19th

Quotes

Books

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

1. Death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
2. Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
3. Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
4. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for ― Meniti Bianglala
5. All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

1. Death ends a life, not a relationship.
2. Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own. Most people can’t do it.
3. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
4. there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.’ – Morrie Schwartz
5. I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
6. This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
7. If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
8. You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too–even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling

Mitch Albom, For one more Day

1. Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

1. “When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?” He made a fist. “Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson.” “What lesson?” I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. “We can take nothing with us.”
   Link

Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

1. In your acknowledgments,” said Pauley, “you say, ‘Finally and firstly, anything created by my heart or hand is from God, by God, through God, and with God.’ And I think that’s the closest I’ve heard you speak about God yet.”
   Link
2. “In my worldview, it’s not right for me to finish something and not acknowledge that it wasn’t just me and my mind doing it,” said Albom. “Be selfish.”
   Link

Interviews

Mitch Albom on the intersection of life and death

1. When I began to lose people, I began to see how small I was

Speeches

Henry Covington & Mitch Albom

1. Your help is coming from without
2. Get into a smaller church
   • The Church is too big and too old
   • I know this Church looks is too old and haggard, but that is why we look at God
   • This Church is too big for God to handle
   • God you heard him, now show him
   • Your people needs to know there is reward for trusting him
   • And, shortly after that Mitch and I sat down
   • Second week of October we started working on shingle
   • By December we were down
3. Aretha Franklin
   • Aretha Franklin sends $5000
   • And, they said Aretha does not donate to anything
4. 5 Ways God Helped
   • 5 is the Number of Grace
     • Without the race
       • Two men from the West-lands had come down
       • The West-lands had called their friends
       • Pastor Smith and Pastor Darrel
       • You are black, they are white
     • Outside your denomination
       • Originally a Pentecostal
     • Suburb vs city
     • Without the congregation
       • Came from outside of the Church’s Congregation
     • Outside the faith
       • Mitch Albom come from outside the faith
   • My help came