When my marriage ended, there wasn’t one thing in my life left untouched. I lost family and friends. I lost my home. I lost business opportunities since the groups I was working with at the time were largely faith-based and they felt a divorce was a “bad testimony”, even though a number of them privately told me […]
When the Taliban took over the Swat District in Pakistan, they banned girls from attending school. Using a pseudonym, 15-year old Malala Yousafzai began a blog that told about what life was like under the Taliban. In her blog, she advocated for education for girls. To silence her, one day members of the Taliban […]
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. Pausch had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told he only had a few months to live. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked […]
The story of Nick Vujicic, a man born without limbs, is about those times in life when all we can see is the limits that seem to be in the way of having what we most want. Limit One: My spouse is a sex addict. Limit Two: I don’t know what’s going to happen to […]
I‘ve got it that you’re making decisions about your future and you have fears about whether you can move into the life you know you want. The amazing transformation of a guy who didn’t give up shows us that just because someone tells us we can’t or shouldn’t do something doesn’t mean we can’t do […]
This video is in Korean with English subtitles. I’ve included it because Sung-bong Choi’s story touches very deep places. Wikipedia gives this biographical sketch: Abandoned in an orphanage at the age of 3, Choi said that he ran away from the institution when he was 5 years old because of having been beaten often. He lived in […]
There’s an awesome in every awful. Beautiful and vivacious, 13-year old Rion Page is blind in one eye and has permanently damaged arms due to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. Sometimes she gets really frustrated when she can’t do something she thinks she should be able to do. When she feels that frustration, she sings as a […]
The daughter of a miner and a typist, Susan Boyle developed a learning disability as a result of being briefly deprived of oxygen during her birth. Local children bullied her and called her “Simple Susan”. Knowing of her daughter’s love of singing, Susan’s mother urged her to audition for Britain’s Got Talent. Susan did and […]