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Former CEO and President of Blue Bell Creameries, Ricky Dickson, in family and business tells how to move from fear to faith—one scoop at a time.

Whether in family with a failed marriage or in business with crises or everyday life, Ricky Dickson has learned, sometimes the hard way, how to walk from fear to faith. With scripture verses, Dickson in this Life & Family Chat gives outlook on good times and hard and how to travel the road between holding onto a mighty God.

Dickson says, “Because we know we’re going to go through trials, that’s just the life that we’re in, there can still be a peace that surpasses understanding.

Mark 4 has been a chapter that I love, where Jesus goes on the boat going across the lake. He goes to sleep on the front of the boat. And the storms come. While they are bailing water out of the boat, he’s asleep. They finally go and wake him up, saying, “Do you not care? We are going to die.” He stands up and says, peace be still. And the waves be still. It just goes to perfect calm. I realized if Christ, my Savior, can rest, even in the midst of the storm, then I want to rest beside him.

In the darkest of my days, I really gravitated to that story. To know that - God, I can’t control this, but you can. Therefore, I’m going to walk and journey with you through the process and no matter the outcome, you are still my Savior.”

In Mark 4:34-41 the verses say: “That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side.’ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?’

He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’

They were terrified and asked each other, ‘Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!’”

In Ricky Dickson’s book by the same name, One Scoop at a Time: Stories and Lessons from Fear to Faith, this internationally acclaimed CEO gives “the inside scoop” as only he can on one of America’s favorite-label and what it has been like to guide the company through changes, challenges, and crises with perseverance and faith in Christ. He encourages us to with faith face troubles head-on and stop letting fear call the shots.

“From a failed marriage to business difficulties, each conflict drove me to my knees and required a deep level of faith in Christ to give me strength to make it through,” says Dickson.

Watch the Parent Compass Life & Family Chat, One Scoop at a TIme.

Find the book, One Scoop at a Time, at onescoopatatime.com.

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