Category: hope

An inspiring example

August 9, 2011 | 6 comments

  Here’s an inspiring video of a young man who did not let extreme hardship of the world defeat his spirit and mire him in self-pity and woe-is-me thinking.  He continues to let his light shine…

Putting mercy above winning

August 1, 2011 | 6 comments

In this world of stiff and often vicious competition for the #1 place in sports, business, and relationships, here’s a video that will give you pause and sober reflection. It’s about a teenager who achieved something she never thought she’d

Looking for a brighter view?

July 5, 2011 | 4 comments

Could life look a little better today? Is there too much darkness, despair and lack around you? If so, it’s time for a brighter view! And you can get it by alienating the material sense of things and getting into

Tornado aftermath

May 30, 2011 | 1 comment

Watching the video rolls of massive waste and destruction in the wake of 200 mph tornadoes that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, and other cities of the Mid-western United States over the last couple of weeks was sobering, to say the

When in the tomb

May 23, 2011 | 6 comments

Have you ever felt imprisoned in a tomb? I’m not thinking of a cave in rock, but of a mental place, perhaps one of hopelessness, despair, poverty, addiction, debt, conflict, disease, sin and any other type of mortal darkness and