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Angels In News-LL&L Monthly Jan2007
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Benjamin Devey
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Jan 05, 2007 15:04 PST
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Learning Love and Life
Monthly Relationships Newsletter
No. 155, January 2007
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Angels Among Us
© 2007 by Benjamin Devey
This is a week to be grateful for heroes.
On Tuesday, Nineteen-year-old, Cameron Hollopeter stumbled off of the
platform as the southbound No. 1 train was entering the 137th
Street/City College station in New York. Wesley Autrey knew he had to do
something to help.
He jumped into a subway track to rescue the stranger from the oncoming
train. He rolled with Hollopeter into a drainage trough along the side
of the track. The train's came to an emergency stop, but not before
some cars passed over Autrey and Hollopeter with just inches to spare.
Neither man suffered any harm from the incident.
On Thursday, two men saw a 3-year-old toddler dangling from a
fourth-floor fire escape. The boy had crawled out of a window when his
baby sitter wasn’t looking.
Hearing people in the building scream for help, the men, Julio Gonzalez,
43, and Pedro Nevarez, 40, saw 3-year-old Timothy Addo dangling from a
Bronx building. They positioned themselves under the fire escape to
catch him.
The boy tumbled and hit Nevarez in the chest so hard he knocked him off
balance, but he bounced into Gonzalez' arms unharmed.
In both instances, the rescuers thought only of saving another person
from harm, acting selflessly to alleviate suffering. It’s a bright note
in an often-bleak landscape of skeptical reports in the news. I was
heartened at the courageous acts of all three men, and I commend them
for their spirit of service.
Maybe Big Apple deserves to be re-dubbed City of Angels.
Several people have reached out to congratulate and reward these men for
their acts. It helps to renew our faith in the good in the human spirit.
No sermon is needed, just a simple reminder that we can all look to the
needs of those around us and think a little less on our own suffering.
Bless those you love,
Benjamin
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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS:
Discovering the Pathway to Fulfillment,
Well-Being, and Enduring Personal Joy
by David G. Myers
http://snipurl.com/HappyPersuit
From a nationally prominent psychology professor and the author of the
best-selling textbook "Psychology" comes "an entertaining scientific
study of well-being" (Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune). Using numerous
anecdotes, Myers reveals the common factors happy people share.
http://snipurl.com/HappyPersuit
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LEARNED OPTIMISM
by Martin E. P. Seligman
http://snipurl.com/LearnOp
Martin Seligman has been studying optimists and pessimists for decades.
Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long
time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into
depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists,
on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a
challenge -- it doesn't knock them down. "Pessimism is escapable,"
asserts Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will
enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel
better and accomplish more. He teaches how to choose optimism--thereby
gaining an essential new freedom to build a life of real rewards and
lasting fulfillment.
LEARNED OPTIMISM
http://snipurl.com/LearnOp
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