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My Story, and Yours

I have a story. It started long ago ... although it doesn't feel so long ago. You have one too. If yours is anything like mine, it's full of triumph and tragedy, love and rejection, victory and defeat. It's likely been a bumpy road. But my story is real, and so it matters. So does yours. As we live out our stories together, whenever our stories...

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Cigarette

Wouldn't it be nice if love was like in a Hollywood romantic comedy? All it would take to fix a dysfunctional or broken relationship would be a crazy scheme. But real life doesn't work out that way. The love we invest into what we intuitively desire the most often does not return to us like we expect and hope. After watching this short film, consider:...

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After the Interview

What's more important: The questions, or the answers? Questions are critically important. Asking good questions helps people to think clearly. But what good are questions without answers? Human beings have an innate desire for knowledge. Not merely information; we are bombarded with enough of that every day. Research at the University of California,...

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Cup of Coffee

If what you believed was wrong, would you want to know? How you answer that question divulges a lot about who you are as a person. Do you value truth most highly? Or is happiness most important to you? In his autobiography Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis describes the distinction between happiness and joy. Happiness is a temporary and fickle emotional...

6:43

Missing

Ever felt like you merely drift from one environment to the next, putting up the appropriate mask and ticking the boxes? Who are you anyway? It is frightful to wonder - does any one really know who we are behind the externals? A person can live their entire life allowing themselves to be defined by external circumstances or peer pressure. Who...

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Open Your Eyes

Have you ever felt "alive but not really living" like the lyrics of this song? Or, as I've heard it joked before, "He's not dead, but he certainly has no life." Sometimes we get so caught up in the daily drudgery of our lives that we miss everything that's going on around us. Is it possible that you've been missing the grand story that's being...

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Meditation

This video recites Isaiah 52:12-53:14, verses from the Hebrew Bible which have a critical significance. Written hundreds of years before Jesus' birth, they foretell his coming in stunning detail. Louis Lapides is Jewish, and was raised according Jewish traditions, educated in the Jewish faith. But after a wild variety of life experiences, he...