Note: Due to his request, the person’s name who told us his life story has been withheld. There must be more to life than to be born and then to die. I always believed that, but never knew really what I was missing, so how could I search for it? I was born and grew up in the Middle East. I occasionally went to church but I didn’t really connect to it. It didn’t mean anything to me. When I was 14, my family moved to Canada. Here, my sadness... > Full Story

Note: Due to his request, the person’s name who told us his life story has been withheld. I was on the verge of killing myself. But something brought me back from the edge of death....

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On February 13, 2007 my life took a drastic change. I was estranged from my husband.  I lived in my parents’ home to help my mother take care of my elderly grandparents.  ...

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Note: Due to his request, the person’s name who told us his life story has been withheld. Growing up in the Middle East, I was a strong adherent of Islam. I tried my best to...

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My education in the Muslim faith began when I was a young child. I grew up in a Sunni Muslim home in the Middle East and was taught to pray by my uncle at age 10. My innocent young...

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I went through life by always having to be in control; being in charge. I was the disciplinarian at home and was the one who did all the “grounding”. When it came to...

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Have you ever tried to kill someone? I did. Although I would never think of doing such a thing now, at one time in my life it seemed to make sense.

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It seemed that we had everything. But I knew there had to be more to life than what we were living. At home in India, I thought that my family’s life was not any different...

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Stripped of dignity and hope, beaten and malnourished. The abandoned six-year-old lay on a mound of garbage wanting to die. Then out of nowhere, a ray of sunshine pierced the black...

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