Daily Word Articles
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September 2014
My life almost ended six years ago.
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August 2014
For many years, I struggled with self-doubt, emotional pain, childhood family problems, betrayal, and deep depression.
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July 2014
My future was bright … if one were to judge my life by the socially imposed checklists by which we usually measure success. I was popular in school.
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June 2014
My dad used to tell me that anything was possible. “Some things are unlikely,” he would say, “but anything is possible!”
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May 2014
My mother was dying. There, I said it out loud. Her doctor was a compassionate man, but he needed to be blunt.
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April 2014
When I was a seminary student, one of my roommates was a portly, retired Jamaican restaurateur, Steven Samms, who went on to lead one of the most successful Unity ministries in Kingston, Jamaica’s
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March 2014
In springtime—as Earth turns toward renewal, fitfully and in starts, but with nature’s innate certainty—new seeds push their roots downward with dogged determination and tender buds begin their jou
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February 2014
I didn’t see it as an expression of love until decades later. What my mom did every morning of my childhood felt, instead, like rejection.
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January 2014
Moment to moment, our awareness resides either in a conventional or transcendental world or reality.
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November 2013
I arrived at my new home on January 10, four days after my 10th birthday. I had just spent my first Christmas in the Los Angeles juvenile protective custody system.