Essay 70 – Our Individuality is Essential

Essay 70 – Our Individuality is Essential

It is apparent that many erroneous beliefs and practices throughout the world’s history evolved from true principles or teachings that were distorted as people fell away from the truth. It is easy to see that human sacrifice, which was prevalent in many ancient...

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Essay 37 – Marital Discord

Essay 37 – Marital Discord

After this experience, I realized that we all have emotional holes created by living in a world with deficiencies. Only love can fill the holes that were created by a lack of love. This quest for love was created by design and not by some mistake. It is how God...

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Essay 61 – A Slave or a King

Essay 61 – A Slave or a King

The other day, I was talking with one of the secretaries at work about a personal issue she was dealing with. I relate to the yearning and frustration in her question: “I want to do the right thing, so why doesn’t God just tell me what I should do?” On the opposite...

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Essay 23 – Our Worldview

Essay 23 – Our Worldview

Living overseas at this young age and interacting with people from divergent socio-economic backgrounds with different beliefs and perspectives informed my personal worldview. Even though individuals often do not realize it, everyone has a worldview, and our worldview...

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Essay 35 – Law School

Essay 35 – Law School

I worked closely with Mr. Ma for several years. I helped him evaluate business opportunities, managed his commercial real estate portfolio, and handled a plethora of problems that arose. I ran his housing developments in Las Vegas and Palmdale, California, after he...

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Essay 63 – Guilt, Justice and Forgiveness

Essay 63 – Guilt, Justice and Forgiveness

Several years ago, a friend loaned me a scholarly book written by a professor from Yale University which traced the development of the concept of the devil. While reading this book, I came across the story of Justin Martyr for the first time. Justin Martyr was a...

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Essay 46 – Control Freak

Essay 46 – Control Freak

Life is messy. There are an infinite number of variables that affect our lives: the weather, political forces, financial concerns, our health, and most of all, other human beings exercising their personal free will. It is human nature to try to bring some semblance of...

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Escape your Emotional Black Holes
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Emotional Black Holes
A Collection of Inspiring Essays.
God is love, and because we all have a spark of His divinity in us, we have a strong core need to love and to be loved. However, because we are born into an imperfect world, all of us have been disappointed by others we depended on for love. This betrayal creates an emotional black hole at the center of our personal universe that sucks us down into a life of loneliness, frustration and pain.
How do we escape the gravity of our emotional black holes? Can we really become free to love and enjoy life? As Mr. Hallstrom shares the life lessons he has learned from a variety of intriguing and often difficult experiences, you may discover a path of healing that leads to freedom and happiness.