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UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING

By Paul Trillo

Film by Paul Trillo Words by Alan Watts Drone Pilot - James Sykes, Paul Trillo

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Words create worlds.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Perpetual Motion 

Max Cooper

Official Video by Nick Cobby

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It is true that we cannot always control what people do against us. We have little power over other people’s attitude or behavior toward us. But we can always choose whether or not we take on a victim mentality.

— Mark Jobe

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TRINITY PRAYER

God for us, we call you Father God alongside us, we call you Jesus, God within us, we call you Holy Spirit You are the Eternal mystery That enables, enfolds, and enlivens all things, Even us, and even me. Every name falls short of your goodness and greatness.

We can only see who You are in what is. We ask for perfect seeing. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.

AMEN

Prayer: Richard Rohr OFM

Icon: Ukrainian, Lviv-born artist Ivanka Demchuk. “The Holy Trinity” egg tempera on wood   

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The Christmas Song

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Bono & Eugene Peterson

This short film documents the friendship between Bono (of the band U2) and Eugene Peterson (author of contemporary-language Bible translation The Message) revolving around their common interest in the Psalms. Based on interviews conducted by Fuller Seminary faculty member David Taylor and produced in association with Fourth Line Films, the film highlights in particular a conversation on the Psalms that took place between Bono, Peterson, and Taylor at Peterson’s Montana home.

The film is featured exclusively through FULLER studio, a site offering resources such as videos, podcasts, reflections, stories — for all who seek deeply formed spiritual lives: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu

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MARY

This piece takes me back to inner-city Chicago and why I pursued pastoral ministry. It was all about the kids. Faith. Hope. Love.

Grateful Prince left us with this moving rendition.

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A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.

Brené Brown

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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Strawberry Swing

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GABRIEL

Gabriel Neris is a 16 years old para-athlete who's not afraid of pursuing his dreams.

He became well known after losing his prothesis in the middle of a 100m competition in São Paulo, Brazil.

Even under a lot of pain, he made a way to reach the finish line.

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The Hell-Raiser. A megachurch pastor’s search for a more forgiving faith.

Keep building beautiful pictures of what might be possible for all of us Rob Bell.

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In the seventeenth century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor who had committed apostasy after being tortured. 

The story takes place in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion (1637–38) of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Tokugawa shogunate.

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A Bicycle Trip

On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthetizing a new compound called lysergic acid diethylamide-25 when he got a couple of drops on his finger.  The chemical, later known worldwide as LSD, absorbed into his system and soon after he experienced an intense state of altered consciousness. In other words, he tripped.

Intrigued by the experience, Hofmann dosed himself with 250 micrograms of LSD and then biked his way home through the streets of Basel, making him the first person ever to intentionally drop acid. The event was later commemorated by psychonauts and LSD enthusiasts as “Bicycle Day.”

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C.S. Lewis

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Empathy