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Not Sold: Where Does Your Value Lie?

Jack puts his heart and soul into the task at hand but he still has no control over the outcome. Sometimes life does not go as planned, regardless of the effort and heart we have put into things. What do you value in life? What do you place priority on? Have you ever felt like Jack and wondered if there was something better to place your value in?...

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

C. S. Lewis once said "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." Lewis was not unacquainted with suffering in his own life. His book A Grief Observed Lewis pours out his heart after the death of his wife, Joy Gresham. Another man who is acquainted with grief...

Would you let go of your child if it meant giving them a better life? This past Sunday I was watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a show that I love even though it makes me cry.  It was the season premiere – did you see it? Instead of building a house for one family they built a home for Boys Hope Girls Hope Baltimore, a group that takes at...

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The Toughest Choices

A doctor's note. Hastily scrawled, it can change your life, or leave you with excruciatingly difficult decisions to make. This short video explores the difficult decisions of life, and the consequences of making decisions. Have you experienced something similar? Are there difficult decisions you need to make (or have been putting off making) recently? Related...

Comforting friends who have gone through significant hurt or loss is not easy. We want to support and encourage our friends during their time of trial, but often what we say can only make things worse. One of my professors, while teaching a graduate course I took called "Evil & Suffering" (not the most uplifting course name ever devised) talked...

We have never watched The Biggest Loser before this season. A friend told us how much they as a family enjoy the program.  We gave it a try and are saying the same thing now.  We as a family are really enjoying the show and learning much and being inspired by the people on the show.  A common theme for the contestants is that they feel worthless...

At 19 weeks I gave birth to a little boy.  We named him Jacob.  We said hello and goodbye in the same hour. He is not a miscarriage or an almost-child, he is my son.  This letter was written three years after his birth.  This is a glimpse into my mother’s heart, a letter written to Jacob my son who resides in heaven.  If you (or someone you...