Barney Reese was raised in the South.  He had a challenging upbringing, then lost his wife and daughter within 5 years of each other.  For him, life is about overcoming.  God is about overcoming, however, you must make the actions.  Barney's way through the tragedies was to focus on the 59 promises of God that he was given.  He rebuilt himself from the ground up, step by step.  The mind is a battlefield where you can prevail when you focus on the good.