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  1. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    12 mins read
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    09/09/14

    When Your Own Family Betrays You

    Being thrown in the pit was but one of the many smoking guns that the prosecutor could bring forth as evidence.
  2. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    12 mins read
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    06/27/14

    Anniversary of a Dead Marriage: The Painful Lessons of Divorce

    Every year, when this day rolls around, I turn over the stones of remembrance that litter my mind, to see what lurks beneath.
  3. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    13 mins read
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    06/21/14

    The Suicide of a Friend

    There is hope and healing for you in Jesus Christ, the God who immersed Himself so deeply in our sufferings that He, too, wept over the death of a dear friend.
  4. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    9 mins read
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    05/23/14

    Call Me Lazarus...One Year Later

    I was angry at heaven, at earth, and everything in between, for my life and my love and my hopes had all gone wrong, terribly, irreversibly, wrong.
  5. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    10 mins read
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    12/10/13

    Drinking with the Dead: Country Music and the Communion of Saints

    The details vary, of course, but we too struggle to repair the heart broken by the tragic death of someone we love. We're dazed, angry, speechless.
  6. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    8 mins read
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    07/11/13

    A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lies

    On that day the mourners were shocked to discover that behind the veneer of her bright smile lurked a fathomless darkness, whose depths she made manifest only when she despaired of life in this world.
  7. Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    4 mins read
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    10/15/12

    Laughing Alone at the Circus

    The crowds, bored into silence, had left a vacuum in the tent that my little boy’s voice began to fill. He laughed unaware and uncaring that he alone laughed, deaf to everyone’s else silence.