Music imprints itself in the brain deeper than any other human experience... ...Music brings back the feeling of life when nothing else can.
02991 – Music Imprints
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02960 – How Many People?
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
02958 – Jesus: The Kind of Friend we Need
The great heresy in American popular religion is the notion that “religion is a private affair,” a secret contract between the believer and God. This individualistic heresy makes Jesus into a close, personal friend who listens, comforts, sustains, confirms, agrees,...
02949 – Not a Perfect Ending
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's...
02939 – Pick the Right Team
If you have always been short, chubby, and slow, and your sense of success means playing on an NBA team, failure will be your lot in life. If, however, you are pleased to play on a local playground team with other short, chubby, and slow people, and you have a...
02922 – Redwood Trees
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
02892 – Making Mistakes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
02857 – “Refuge in Grief”
Here's what I most want you to know: this really is as bad as you think. No matter what anyone else says, this sucks. What has happened cannot be made right. What is lost cannot be restored. There is no beauty here, inside this central fact. Acknowledgement is...
02848 – God’s One & Only Job Description
God’s one and only job description is to turn death into life. That’s what God does with every new springtime, every new life, every new season, every new anything.
02798 – Family isn’t Always Blood
Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.