The Corrupt Ford Mo. Company

They say that Ford is going to prevent the George Mark Children's House from going under. Well; that's one way to start paying for their sins. As long as they keep an eye on it long afterwards because as we know many of the CEOs of these charities are corrupt thieves.

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What If?

What if all of the ancient religious texts were correct in their message but their stories were off?

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7 Key Steps to Greater Happiness and Contentment (Poll)

1. Being Yourself. The first guaranteed way of bringing real happiness into your life is to BE YOURSELF. Let no one take away the essence of you. Those who don't like you being yourself usually mean you no good.

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I Confess...

We're all human. We make mistakes. We're among friends, right? I have some confessions I'd like to make, starting with:

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The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table.

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A Reflection – Reason for Hope

Forsyth, Georgia – A Spiritual Thought from Saint Paul " If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but handed Him over to us all, how will he not give us everything else along with Him?" (Rom 8:31-32)While Paul wrote many words in his epistle …

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Season of Nonviolence 2009 |Day 29: Forgiveness

Day 29 -- FORGIVENESS (Feb. 27) When we forgive, we are free to let go of the past and move on with our lives. We do not condone the hurtful behavior but we realize that there is something within us that is more powerful and important than this wounding experience.

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Forgive and Forget?

An effective leader will construct his policies around a unified strategy. Although it may not be yet apparent to the outsider what is the strategy, the lack of tansparency is not evidence there is no strategy. All it implies is that the outsider is not an insider.

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Next to a lunch counter that was segregated for so long sat a table of two white people and five black people Friday afternoon. Just another Friday in Rock Hill, South Carolina, January 2009. Conversation quickly took the group back to Jan. 31, 1961.

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What is Grace ? Who Needs It?

Grace is a very big part of my Episcopal upbringing. The way I have been taught is this.

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Why are we an angry society?

This is actually somewhat of a rhetorical question, as there are many answers and yet little understanding. We have become victims of an angry mob and we are in the midst of it as well.

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A Prayer for Fred

Some might call the members of Westboro Baptist Church the most despised group in America. You know there's something off when even Fox News reporters think they are a sorry bunch.

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Scott and Janet Willis want to visit former Gov. George Ryan in federal prison. And if they are given the chance to meet with the imprisoned Republican, they told me what they hope to do. They want to forgive him.

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Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …

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On this Thanksgiving Day...

In little more than an hour I must leave, but I wanted to take a minute to write this first. My oldest brother and I are going to have Thanksgiving dinner with my mother. Next month she will be 92 years old and I know that we will not have many more holidays to spend together.

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From Non-Liable Advice to Job-Search Resources to Christian Research Resources to Information on Civil Rights, Politics, Finances, Health, & virtually you-name-it…I have manually written over 430 pages of source code in a Christ-based humanitarian effort to improve the state of …

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We Are Jonah

Jonah is an interesting figure in the bible. As a prophet of God, he ran away from God's designs to warn Nineveh. It's hard to imagine a believer deliberately seeking to confound the will of God. Or is it?

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The Key

Lying in tender grass, Evening creeps upon me; A comforting blanket, It covers me. Shadows hang like Velvet curtains. My thoughts walk restlessly Down the rambling pathways Of my consciousness. My spirit struggles against A cage within, Longing to follow And be free.

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Array, Clarity, Cycle Of Life, Empathy, Fairness, Forgiveness, Head Of A Pin, Hills And Dales, Holiday Season, Human Endeavor, Humility, Hunch, Intrigue, Jewish New Year, Life Cycle, Openness, Passions, Personal Reflection, Personal Transformation, Receptivity, …

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Composer of evil Destroyer of right Writer of wicked Demon delight Wandering sinner Dangerous gun Losing a winner Prodigal son Pondering prophet Gullible dream Obvious misfit No in-between Wavering shepherd Rather a sheep Ungrateful leper Withered, I weep

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Tyler Perry is standing in the middle of what was once a life on the brink.

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Bitter about loosing a loved one? A child? Jesus is the answer

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Is "Unity" the easiest and cheapest word in the American political vocabulary?

It is very fashionable to desire unity in a party, especially when it begins to look remarkably fractious. It is also the easiest word to say as part of wishful thinking because most of us dislike conflict and simply yearn for a quiet life instead.

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Tom Walker... Where Did You Go?

I've been seeing life quite differently than I have for a very long time. I have been on a victorious personal growth and recovery journey for six years now and perhaps I'm seeing another fork in the road.

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Is a capacity for forgiveness important for mental health? Is there any real difference between people who cheat because they have a player mentality, and people who cheat because of an episode of vulnerabiltiy, like a death, loneliness, impending illness, drug induced irresponsi …

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Should I take him back?

Q. My husband and I had a very serious problem that almost ruined our family.. He cheated on me many times and this time I gave up. I returned everything including our wedding ring, packed his clothes and all his belongings. For the first time i said everything I wanted to say.

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