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February 2012

  • Faith, Sacrifice, Spiritual Journeys and the Oscars
    February 25, 2012

    Insomniac that I am and this week being Academy Awards week as well as the first week of Lent, I was taken hostage by the Turner Classic Movies channel, which was showing inspirational and faith-filled movies that had won or been nominated for an Oscar.

    I was about to go to bed the other night when I overheard the voice of TCM host Robert Osborne say, “ ... starring Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Lee.J.Cobb and a young Vincent Price.”

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  • Death of a Once-Inspiring Star
    February 17, 2012

    Tomorrow, at New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from where I sit, Whitney Houston will be laid to rest in a service conducted by pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans and attended by such luminaries as CeCe Winans, Aretha Franklin, Jesse Jackson, Kevin Costner, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan.

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  • Do You Want to Know a Secret?
    February 10, 2012

    In my book published by Guideposts last year, The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life and How They Can Transform Yours, I shared inspiring stories of people who had overcome tremendous obstacles to do great things using faith, prayer and positive thinking.

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  • Relapse Redux
    February 3, 2012

    Poor Josh Hamilton. He was such an inspiring story.

    I checked my email this morning as soon as I turned off the alarm on my BlackBerry. Lying there in bed blinking the sleep from my eyes I stared at a headline: Baseball MVP Josh Hamilton Suffers Addiction Relapse. The 30-year-old slugger for the Texas Rangers took a drink in a Dallas bar before a teammate ushered him out. Hamilton reported the incident to Rangers management the next day.

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Edward Grinnan is Editor-in-Chief and Vice President of Guideposts Publications. Edward lives in New York City with two blondes—his wife, Julee, and Golden Retriever, Millie, who has been featured in his blog and popular videos. Edward loves cycling, hiking with Millie at his house in the Berkshire Hills and Wolverines that hail from Michigan.

If you need a little boost of inspiration, pick up a copy of Edward's book The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life and How They Can Transform Yours.