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National "Get Over It" Day
Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. Bad relationships, bad decisions—we tend to revisit the moments when we were not-so-smart ...
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In the Midst of Tragedies Human Life Matters
The famous atheist Richard Dawkins once claimed, "[The universe] has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, ...
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The Third Stage of Prayer—Giving Thanks
The Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling was born with a birth defect—his left arm was disabled and much shorter than his right. Then, in his early ...
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'The Perfect Storm' Sometimes Hits Our Lives
When the Andrea Gail left Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts on September 20, 1991, and headed into the North Atlantic, no one could have known that this ...
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Michael J. Fox Learns from Parkinson's Disease
The Jewish actor Michael J. Fox admits that he's struggled with the reality of his Parkinson's disease. Fox said, "Coping with the relentless ...
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Actor Tim Allen Struggles to Trust God
The actor Tim Allen's father died when Allen was 11 years old. A drunk driver crashed into their car as his dad was driving home from a college football ...
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Man Saddened that Friends Can't Share His Grief
The British novelist Julian Barnes tried to capture the loneliness of what he calls "grief-work." After thirty years of marriage, his wife Pat ...
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Adversity Made Abraham Lincoln an Effective Leader
The movie Lincoln provides a glimpse into some of the challenges that President Lincoln faced while he was in office. But the level of suffering this ...
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The Parable of the Resistance Leader
Is it rational to trust God even when we do not fully understand what he is doing? One of the most illuminating answers was put forward by the Oxford ...
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Tree Survives 9/11 and a Massive Storm
Naturalist Jane Goodall tells the true story about a Callery pear tree that had been planted near Building 5 of the World Trade Center. Since the early ...
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