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Click here to visit my gallery of celebrities who struggle from depression, and what spiritual lessons I’ve learned from them.

Thanks to reader Babs for directing me to the Rev. Dr. Michael Foss’s commentary on wishful thinking, optimism, and hope. To download a podcast of his August 12, 2007 show dealing with this topic, click here. (Or to get to his website “Day 1” click here.) Foss is senior pastor of Lutheran Church of the…

Along the same lines of the Buddhist tale, reader Cindy wrote the following on the message board of my “What Makes People Relapse?” post: Hello Dear Friends: I pray that each of us has better days ahead. I’d like to share this story that I heard years ago on suffering.? One day, a man went…

I was moved by the post “Com+passio” by fellow Beliefnet blogger Rod Dreher, in which he writes: I’ve been reminded in the past couple of days how much intense suffering and grief we have around us. They’re going to have prayer meeting at Matthew’s school for the sake of a little girl from the school…
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