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Romans 5:3-5
3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
5and hope doesn`t disappoint us, because God`s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to us.
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In Life Is Beautiful, Guido Orefice convinces his young son that the Nazi concentration camp is an elaborate game. Points for hiding, staying quiet, not asking for food. The grand prize: a real tank. Guido transforms horror into hope through relentless joy.
In Cast Away, Chuck Noland survives four years alone on a Pacific island. He loses everything—fiancée, career, civilization. He nearly loses his mind. But he survives, is rescued, and gives a speech to coworkers: "I knew, somehow, that I had to keep breathing.
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In the writings of Teresa of Avila, the soul journeys through interior rooms toward union with God. But what she describes in the sixth mansion...
In 2018, Rachel Held Evans wrote about sitting with a friend who had just been told by her church that her questions made her dangerous....
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There is a moment in centering prayer when every distraction has been released, every thought gently set aside, and what remains is not peace but...
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In 1989, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco during the World Series. Buildings pancaked, highways collapsed, and the ground itself became unreliable. Yet engineers later...
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Bible is not a book about people who got it right — it is a book about God...
In centering prayer, there comes a moment practitioners call "the cloud of unknowing" — when words dissolve, thoughts scatter, and you sit in what feels...
God who does not waste our pain, I bring this suffering to You— not because I understand it, but because You are the only One who can redeem it. I will not pretend this is easy. I will not call this comfortable.