Mend this Broken Sound
"Mend This Broken Sound" by the Junkyard Poets melds the melodic rhythms of a U2 pop song with a Christmas theme of hurt and pain. While often Christmas is a time of celebration and peace on Earth, when relationship problems overwhelm our thoughts it can be tough to find any peace of mind during the holidays. If you're finding... >Read More
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Crave: The Documentary
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What role do our deepest human cravings for intimacy, destiny, and meaning play in our search for God?
Crave: The Documentary explores how regardless of race, background, or spirituality, we all have one thing in common: the cravings of our soul. Crave features intimate interviews...... >Read More
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erwin mcmanus,
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Men,
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Finding Hope in a Chat Room
Alone and discouraged, I sat staring at a computer screen. I was frustrated by the way my life had turned out. I’d worked hard to hold onto remnants of hope for my marriage, but each day that summer I could feel it slipping through my fingers. I felt so alone. God was still there, I knew, but I longed... >Read More
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How to Be Successful and Satisfied
Success is:______. How would you fill in the blank?
"That's easy," you might say. "Success is ... for an athlete, winning the Super Bowl, the World Series, or a gold medal: for an entertainer, winning an Oscar, a Grammy, or an Emmy; for a businessperson, being a top executive with one of the Fortune 500 companies: for a university student,... >Read More
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Step
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” ~Mother Theresa
He is unaware of my presence. His eyes are closed, the patterned quilt above him faintly rising and falling. The small clock radio at his bedside blares an old country station, but the silence is overwhelming. Grandchildren innocently look out from photographs haphazardly...... >Read More
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hope,
kindness,
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Shaun Smith,
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9/11 and You
My sister had a 9:00 a.m. appointment at the World Trade Center.
On September 12.
Since September 11, 2001, I've often wondered what might have happened had her appointment been a day earlier or the terrorist attacks a day later. I could have been walking the streets of New York City with her picture.
What were your feelings that tragic...... >Read More
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Starting Over: Facing the Future after Significant Loss
February 13th fell on a Tuesday that year, but it seemed like my unlucky day.
My wife of twenty years was divorcing me; it would be final in two days. February 1, my employer had shown me the door—on the twenty-fifth anniversary of my employment. Now, on February 13, I was in my physician’s office getting test results. Unaware of... >Read More
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