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This song says it all about never giving up hope on God. My 3 year old daughter sings along with me. It is amazing that she walked into my recording studio that day and started singing. Her voice is angelic in this song.

Have you ever given up on God? Or been close to giving up on Him? I have. This is the story of a spiritual journey: from feeling abandoned by God to feeling embraced by God. For years I’d felt an oppressive weight bearing down on me: the burden of anger against God. Why did it feel like He never stuck up for me? Why didn’t He rescue me from the abuse, loneliness, and pain of a troubled childhood? Why didn’t He stop my parents from abandoning me to the foster care system? With every disappointment, I became more and more convinced He wasn’t there, wasn’t guiding me through my struggles. He either could not or would not comfort me during the hard times; the times I needed Him most. I didn’t fear God, and secretly despised Him.

It was the drowning death and resuscitation of a young girl that forced me to rethink my contentious and unhealthy relationship with God. Knocked hard out of my irreligious complacency, I came to see tragedy, hope, suffering, and overcoming with new clarity and understanding. Adversity, I realized, can be one of God’s greatest blessings. This spiritual epiphany has filled me with immeasurable gratitude: for the breath of life, the goodness around me, and even for the sad, troubled past I had to overcome. This is a story about rediscovering God, and gaining awareness of His presence.

A former High-Risk Foster Child with thirteen years in the foster care system, Derek W. Clark is an Inspiring Motivational Speaker and Author. As a helpless child, Derek was nearly institutionalized due to erratic behavioral problems and violent tendencies. He is a survivor of child abuse, and was diagnosed early on as mentally handicapped. As he developed, it became clear to his foster parents that this diagnosis was without merit. Even against unbelievable odds, Derek never gave up, using music, laughter, will power, and positive decision-making to triumph over adversity. He is the author of the autobiographical books I Will Never Give Up For The Teenager, I Will Never Give Up, which received the highest rating of 5 Stars from the American Authors Association and I Will Never Give Up On God Again. Derek is an inspiring motivational speaker and inspirational speaker.

Original Music by Derek Clark. All music and photographs copyright Derek Clark
To Contact Derek visit his website www.NeverGiveUpOnGod.com and www.IWillNeverGiveUp.com

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August 19, 2008
BYM Summer Retreat @ Rancho Ybarra

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What is true beauty? Do you think our culture encourages it? Check out a few of these stats…

:: Did you know that 24% of women would sacrifice 3 years of their life to be thin

:: Girls as young as five have expressed fears of getting fat and 90% of high school junior and

:: Senior girls diet regularly even though only between 10-15% are considered overweight.

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Does this surprise you? Do you wonder why this is happening?

Shelley’s believes that one of the biggest influences on girls today regarding beauty is the media. Using powerful videos and PowerPoint slides, Shelley Hitz will help expose the lies girls believe about their beauty and the steps to become free…helping teen girls find their true beauty!

Invite Shelley to speak at your event today: http://www.christian-speakers.​org/booking-request-form.html

(music by Bethany Dillon) We purchased a music license to use the song Beautiful from musicservices.org: License #: 334473

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Gain confidence, enhance your credibility, and maximize your response – prepare with purpose. Then next time God asks you to speak, you’ll be ready.

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http://www.eaglestalent.com/Shawn-Achor -Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau presents Shawn Achor. To book speaker Shawn Achor, visit his speaker profile page.

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures in the most popular class at Harvard. In 2009 alone, Shawn was invited to lecture in 36 different countries on how positive psychology can raise happiness and performance. His work received attention in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Shawn graduated magna laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. In 2006, he served as Head Teaching Fellow with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar of “Positive Psychology,” a class that enrolled 1 out of every 7 Harvard undergraduates. For seven years, Shawn served as an Officer of Harvard, living in Harvard Yard studying and counseling Harvard students. Shawn now travels around the world giving talks on this research. When the economy collapsed, the world’s largest banks sent Shawn on a tour of banking crisis centers to restore confidence and forward progress. He has worked with doctors in Dubai, farmers in Zimbabwe, CEOs in Hong Kong, and students in South Africa. Shawn is currently collaborating with Yale University on researching the link between happiness and performance, and his book, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work, was published by Random House in September 2010.

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