Tag: overcoming challenges
group name: soulfood
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September 11, 2007 08:00 PM EDT --
Not long after the horrific events that occurred six years ago today, I heard several people ask, "Where was God on 9/11?" The best answer to that question came from a young woman who lived . . .
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December 31, 2007 05:35 PM EST --
Psychoanayst Carl Jung taught that there are two major seasons in our lives. The first season he said was one where we focused primarily on the biological and social aspects of our lives--having children, . . .
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January 21, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
She was a teenaged dancer in China, having trained from early childhood, when she lost her left arm in a car accident. Depressed, she turned away from dancing for awhile. But when asked to coach a . . .
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October 09, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
On August 30, 2003, Robert Rogers and his wife and four children were driving from Wichita to their home near Kansas City, Missouri. They had attended a wedding in Wichita and now, with the children (all . . .
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May 20, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
Helen Keller said: "When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Have you found . . .
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August 12, 2007 05:50 PM EDT --
Are you having a bad day? Is life getting you down? Well, let me tell you about Nick Vujicic.
Nick's father was the pastor of a church in Melbourne, Australia, and, on the day in 1982 that . . .
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September 18, 2007 02:50 PM EDT --
Are you looking for some inspiration today? If the answer is "yes" then check out a short video about a college student named Patrick Henry Hughes.
This young man was born blind with physical . . .
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January 07, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
His crutches were not the first thing I noticed. It was his smile. Luca Patuelli, 21, is a college student. He is short, dark-haired with a few pimples left over from his teenage years. But his face . . .
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March 24, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
The call came on Wednesday, early in the morning. The church in Dayton, Ohio where my husband had interviewed to be the minister had chosen to hire the other candidate. The president of the board of trustees . . .
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April 03, 2007 08:01 PM EDT --
This week is Holy Week and, as we contemplate the story of Jesus, it is also good to see how his story reflects our own life.
The idea of crucifixion is gruesome. It is not an easy way to die. . . .
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March 13, 2007 05:55 PM EDT --
About two years ago, I got my hearing tested. I had been wearing hearing aids since 2001, but had noticed that the ones I was wearing seemed to have stopped working.
After having them checked out and . . .
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May 23, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
It is important that we examine whether we are coming from compassion or pity in responding to someone who is experiencing a challenge.
When we are experiencing pity, we are seeing others as helpless . . .
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January 10, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
In the Biblical story of Lot, he and his wife are told by God not to look back as they leave Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's wife turns to look back at their home as they flee. And what happens? She turns . . .
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February 20, 2007 09:14 PM EST --
Cricket Bidleman, a second-grader, won the 2006 Braille Challenge for her age group, sponsored by the Braille Institute of America. This is a wonderful accomplishment for a seven year-old, but for Cricket, . . .
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March 06, 2007 11:21 AM EST --
"I want more than anything to be a good mother--the best mother I can be," the pregnant woman said. Several months later, she gave birth to an autistic child.
"Why?" she cried out. . . .
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April 06, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
When my first husband asked for a divorce, I felt as if my heart had been stomped on. Feelings of rejection, abandonment, anger, sadness, and confusion were some of the emotions that I experienced. Going . . .
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January 25, 2007 10:45 AM EST --
My husband came to me one day as we were nearing our one-year anniversary.
"Sit down, I want to talk to you," he said, looking very serious.
We sat on the couch together and he stared . . .
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January 02, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
In the Bible, the rainbow was a symbol of God's covenant with Noah and the people of the earth. Personally, the rainbow has become a symbol of God's presence and guidance in my own life. . . .
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February 27, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
Glenda Watson Hyatt has written a book entitled I'll Do It Myself, which is now published and available for purchase. As someone who is writing her own book, I know that this is a real accomplishment. . . .
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