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A Turtle Dropped from the Heavens
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Austin Fischer
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Aeschylus was the founding father of Greek tragedy. He believed life was vicious, the gods were brutal, and all were doomed to meet a tragic end, either at the hand of fate or the gods, neither of whi...
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Platitudes not Necessary
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Andy Cook
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Writer Harriet Sarnoff Schiff has distilled her pain and tragedy in a book called The Bereaved Parent. When her young son died during an operation to correct a congenital heart malfunction, her clergy...
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It is Well
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Matthew 5:4, Psalm 147:null, Psalm 34:18, Revelation 21:1-8, 2 Corinthians 1:3-12, Romans 8:18-28, John 11:null, 2 Thessalonians 3:16, John 14:27, 1 Peter 5:7, Daniel 6:, Psalm 46:, Psalm 23:, Job 1:, Job 2:, 2 Samuel 11:, 2 Samuel 12:
If you ever travel to Jerusalem and are looking for sites to see, beyond all the ‘must-see’ sites related to Ancient Israel, the Temple Mount, and the sites associated with Jesus, you might venture to...
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I Don’t Know What to Do
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Kate Bowler
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The Following is an excerpt by Duke University Professor Kate Bowler, soon after finding out she has stage four cancer as she sits in her hospital bed following surgery: “I’m going to need for you to...
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Getting to Do the Things She Loves
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Chris Spielman
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Philippians 3:20-21, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, Revelation 21:4, Isaiah 40:31, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
Chris Spielman was at one time a paragon of athletic performance. A two-time All-American Linebacker at Ohio State University, and later three-time all pro for the Detroit Lions, Spielman knew what it...
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The Christmas Gift
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Andy Cook
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Isaiah 61:3, John 11:32-35, Romans 8:28, Genesis 37:50, James 1:17, Romans 6:23 , 1 Corinthians 12:28
A preaching professor at Harvard University tells the story of the year his 5-year-old son was working on an art project in his kindergarten class. It was made of plaster, resembled nothing in particu...
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The Importance of a Good Ending
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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- Death
- Life
An ending can be either good or bad. There are excellent novels that held my attention and moved me for hundreds of pages only to end in a way that made me regret reading the story. Sadly, the same ca...
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Alexander Schmemann
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1 Peter 1:3, Luke 24:1-12, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-10, John 11:25-26, John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
Thus on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it...
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Belief Like a Child: Once Upon a Time
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Frederick Buechner
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- Children
Once upon a time, which is to say at a time beyond time, or belief that there was not because there could not be such belief was not because there could not be such at a different kind of time altoget...
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Where Were the Humanists?
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Timothy Keller
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Isaiah 41:10, Revelation 21:4, John 14:1-3, Romans 8:38-39, Psalm 34:18, 2 Corinthians 5:1
Not long after the December 2012 Newtown shootings, and all the speeches by civic leaders, memorial services, and funerals were over, Samuel G. Freedman wrote a column in The New York Times titled “In...
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Times of Crisis: Reappraising and Rebuilding Lives
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Jared Diamond
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Psalm 34:18, Romans 12:15, John 11:35, Isaiah 61:3, 2 Corinthians 1:4, Lamentations 3:32
On November 28, 1942, a fire broke out and spread rapidly through an overcrowded Boston nightclub called Cocoanut Grove (the owner’s spelling), whose sole exit became blocked. A total of 492 people di...
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Albert Camus
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Live to the point of tears.
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William Shakespeare
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- Loss
- Grief
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
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Isaac Watts
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- Grief
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
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Joan Didion
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- Grief
Grief has no distance…Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.
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Victor Hugo
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“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the sam...
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Hannah More
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- Grief
In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Henri J. M. Nouwen
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- Loss
- Grief
As we feel the pain of our own losses, our grieving hearts open our inner eye to a world in which losses are suffered far beyond our own little world of family, friends, and colleagues. It is the worl...
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George Eliot
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- Death
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man’s death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred, too.
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Anton Chekhov
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Should his heart break and the grief pour out, it would flow over the whole earth, it seems, and yet, no one sees it.
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Julia Cameron
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- Loss
All artists must learn the art of surviving loss: loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief… Artistic losses can be turned into artistic gains and strengths—but not in isola- tion...
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R. C. Sproul
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- Death
Death is a divine appointment.
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Sue Monk Kidd
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Philippians 1:6, James 1:2-4, Jeremiah 29:11, 1 Peter 5:10, Psalm 51:10
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
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Don DeLillo
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- Irony
- Death and Dying
"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."
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Nicholas Wolterstorff
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I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.
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Matthew McCullough
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- Death
- The Passing of Time
Death spreads its poison through everything we enjoy because nothing we enjoy is ours to keep. Time passes, things change, and eventually everyone loses everything they love
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William Shakespeare
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- Grief
- Mourning
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
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Biblical Lament and Tahlequah the Orca
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Amy Peterson
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Lament is the practice of mourning what is wrong in the world and calling on God to repair it. We lament the sins for which we are responsible, the sins for which we are only indirectly responsible, a...
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Who Else?
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Nancy Ortberg
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- Grief
A good friend of mine lost her child recently. Unspeakable, seismic sadness. When she called, I listened in stunned silence as she told me what had happened. My mind was racing, trying to comprehend t...