The Gift Of Presence

We don't have to spend our time skipping along
the surface of life, missing out on the richness of
engaging deeply with those around us...


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Can't Buy Me Love

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On a website called Craig's List, a young woman
wrote: "I'm a spectacularly beautiful 25-year-old
girl. I'm articulate and classy. I'm looking to [marry]
a guy who makes at least half a million a year.
Where do you single rich men hang out?"

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Question Authority

"Question authority."

That was the slogan of a generation disillusioned
by what they saw as the abuses of those in power.
A steady stream of foreign policy failures, presidential
scandals, and corporate abuses left an entire generation
skeptical of authority.

According to some educators, for example, the only way
to teach children to have a balanced view of the world is
to teach them to skeptically question everything in the
curriculum or the text. Nothing is to be taken for granted;
everything is to be examined as an antagonist.

And for some, "authority" is synonymous with "tyranny."
There is no essential difference between the exercise of
authority and responsibility for others and a repressive
boot pressed across the neck of the people.


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Experimenting With Human Dignity

In H. G. Wells's novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, the survivor
of a shipwreck lands on an island in the South Pacific. There
he discovers that the island's owner has been creating human-
animal hybrids.

Wells's novel grew out of his revulsion at what people were
doing to animals. Today, the real source of horror is what man
is doing to himself.

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The Dead Don't Bleed

For one family in Venezuela, the space between death and
life is filled with more shock than usual. After a serious car
accident, Carlos Camejo was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officials released the body to the morgue and a routine
autopsy was ordered. But as soon as examiners began
the autopsy, they realized something was gravely amiss:
the body was bleeding.

Without anesthesia, they quickly stitched up the wounds
to stop the bleeding, a procedure, in turn, that jarred the
man awake. "I woke up because the pain was unbearable,"
said Camejo. Equally jarred awake was Camejo's wife, who
came to the morgue to identify her husband's body and
instead found him in the hallway--alive.

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Don't All Religions Lead To God?

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There is a dizzying array of options when it
comes to religion, and the culture around us
says that they are all equally valid. It seems
absolutely bizarre to people that someone would
say, "This one way is the truth and the only truth."

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The Sovereign

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For years, I never used the word "sovereign" as a noun.
I knew it could be used in this way--"Like a sovereign,"
writes Shakespeare "he radiates worth, his eyes lending
a double majesty"--I just never did. But trial and tragedy
have a way of waking us to words and realities overlooked.


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