Compassion Improves Your Health
Compassion and happiness. “There’s increasing evidence that people who feel socially connected, loved and cared for have lower levels of harmful immune chemicals in their body. They live longer. They’re healthier,”
That Day a Photographer Posed You With a Stranger
Watch what happens when a photographer poses two strangers--who are not alike on the surface--in family-like poses. One of the small, beautiful takeaway is listening to the interviewees after the fact, as they explain how the exercises broke down barriers. Watch the whole video here.
That Day the Dry Cleaner Cared About the Unemployed
Everyone knows what a monster the economy can be for the employed...let alone those who have jobs.
But most days, if you're anything like me, the giant, systemic problems that hang over society seem so un-dentable.
That's why I love stories like Carlos Vasquez's. They suggest that even if we cannot reverse the economic downturns overnight with some simple solution, there are likely small ways that each of us can support those around us.
To create small shifts toward hope for ...
Marriage Isn’t For You: Words From Seth Adam Smith
Having been married only a year and a half, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn’t for me. Your marriage isn’t for yourself, you’re marrying for a family. Not just for the in-laws and all of that nonsense, but for your future children. Who do you want to help you raise them? Who do you want to influence them? Marriage isn’t for you. It’s not about you. Marriage is about the person you married.
That Day Your Church Provides Homes to 160 Children Without Families
have often heard people talk about "how the church could change the world"; how the church could eliminate poverty or wipe out literacy or [insert other favorite cause] if only it would rally its people and resources toward need.
Rarely, though, do you hear of local churches that take that statement out of the theoretical and attach it to real life like this one does.