Tag: inspiration
group name: findingfaith
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November 02, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
The "Spirituality Explorers" discussion question for this week is: What one book, other than the Bible, has been the greatest inspiration to you, and why? How has this book affected your life? . . . more
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September 20, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this of God’s method of communication—“God Himself does not speak prose, but communicates with us by hints, omens, inferences, and dark resemblances in objects . . . more
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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 . . . more
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September 09, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
I've always believed that if people of different religions sat down with one another and talked, we would have far less wars and many more friendships. Maybe that's why I enjoyed the book, The . . . more
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August 04, 2007 11:50 AM EDT --
As promised yesterday in my review of The Scent of God, Beryl Singleton Bissell's extroadinary memoir, here is the short interview that Beryl and I did by email. I hope you enjoy it as much . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 23, 2007 08:47 PM EDT --
article © 2007 James A. Harris
Thanks to the many positive comments I have received for my article about how my brother Paul has been the inspiration of my life, "If I Could..." These Words . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 25, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
MyTestimony . . . more
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January 19, 2007 10:53 AM EST --
I have worked with the dying over the years, and there is one thing that I've come to believe: We do not die alone.
Time and time again, I was told by people who were preparing to cross over, that loved . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 13, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
By James A. Harris
I was running from God, fleeing, like Jonah, from the Ninevahs of my future. I joined the U.S. Navy to escape God's call on my life, and after . . . more
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May 08, 2007 10:41 PM EDT --
Amy Turner Tunick came into this life on the 13th and she left this life on the 13th. May 13th of 2006 to be exact. I only found out about her passing a few days ago, and as we are coming upon the one-year . . . more
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July 26, 2007 01:26 PM EDT --
I went to a new audiologist awhile back; one of my hearing aids needed some adjusting. A young African-American man sat hunched over a desk focused on his work. He turned briefly to acknowledge my . . . more
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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. . . . more
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June 05, 2007 03:10 AM EDT --
The Sea
By Jen Donier
Copyright November 20, 2004
Dedicated to Yanni for his Music
Concert and love of the Sea
White frothed waves rolling in,
casting their treasures on the . . . more
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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. . . . more
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March 19, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
Through a cobblestone path, we had walked;
through a trail we ventured for a jaunt
under the brush of the mid-summers' lawn
that blew past a wind of the warming sun
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May 22, 2007 11:26 PM EDT --
Can you imagine a world without hate? I can. In my mind, it would be a place where we focus on our similarities rather than our differences. We would focus on our oneness as brothers and sisters of humanity. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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