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Should we value both pain and beauty?
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Finding deeper meaning in life’s ups and downs. Real. True. Sometimes painful. But, always me
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Finding deeper meaning in lifeâs ups and downs.Â
Real. True.
Sometimes painful.
But, always meaningful.
Living for the now can leave a void thatâs hard to see, but even harder to heal. Yet a life of authenticity - the beauty as well as the pain - can give us so much more.
Todayâs cultural obsession with pursuing and worshiping a curated version of lifeâs moments, a digital highlight reel captured and shared on social media, is a reflection of our drive to feel, and to be seen. But itâs an abbreviated reality, not an augmented one. Where we substitute virtual experience for real-world presence, we feed the now at the expense of something more profound. Temporary fulfillmentâa photo, a âlikeââhelps us forget about our unhappiness, anxiety, and pain, if just for a moment.
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But we all long for a path in life that is real, true, and meaningful. We lean into the present with hope; embracing joy, celebrating possibility, enduring trauma and making room for grief. We long for beauty and the completeness of love.
We are survivors, all of us. Weâve wrestled the promiscuity of life, the inebriation of the thrill and the lie of casual intimacy, and come away with our own scars. We donât want more. We just want what is real and true.
Could chasing momentary happiness be keeping us from experiencing real fulfillment?
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In authentic community, we can find the faith, truth, and beauty we crave at an intimate level. Together, taking the time to sit with our own and our neighborsâ discomfort and hopes, we can push through the facade that has become a way of life, and revolutionize ourselves and our culture. In a community of faith, truth, and beauty, we can find hope in our pain and honesty in our love.
If you seek that kind of life-bringing, world-healing community, Yellowstone Theological Institute invites you to join us.
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We offer an education that goes beyond the classroom, a community where you can become the person, the scholar, the leader and the Christ-follower that you are destined to be.
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