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b'Speaker: Jeff Jarvis
\\nWe were in downtown Kelowna on one of the last full days of our vacation this summer, enjoying breakfast with some good friends - when my cell phone rang. 
\\nIt was a close friend of ours...she was sobbing.  
\\nPainfully she told me her son - 23 years old - had died from a freak accident the night before. I\\u2019m sure I went into a state of shock. I just couldn\\u2019t believe it\\u2026 we had just golfed with him only weeks before. How could this happen...to him? He was such a good kid, in the prime of his life.  
\\nLife isn\\u2019t supposed to happen this way.
\\nI don\\u2019t know about you but I can have these stretches in my life where everything is going so well, and then something unexpected like this happens\\u2026 news of a death, a diagnosis, a financial crisis, a relational breakup. And it shatters any sense of predictability in life. Tragic moments like these can make life seem so fragile and unfair and in some cases, almost pointless. I mean if bad things happen to good people - if healthy people can get sick and die, if honest people can get screwed over, why bother trying?  It can be hard not to get a little cynical about life -- to feel like it\\u2019s all a bit meaningless.
\\nOur spiritual ancestors were well acquainted with life that, at times, felt meaningless. Amid their despair, though, an unconventional form of wisdom was born. Wisdom that could melt the hardest cynicism and offer hope in times when everything seemed so pointless.
\\nThis Sunday, I\\u2019m going to share some of this unconventional wisdom with you. I promise it will help when those difficult moments occur in your own life.
\\nI would encourage you to invite a friend and plan to come. Not only will it be useful for your journeys, but we\\u2019re going to enjoy a \\u201cBack to Fall\'\' community lunch afterward - complete with donairs.  So it will be a great time to reconnect. We hope you\\u2019ll join us.  
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