Tom Hanks’s virtual commencement address and Star Wars Day: Are you trusting the Force more than the Father?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR MAY 05, 2020
Tom Hanks's commencement address and Star Wars Day both point to the power within the human spirit. Today's podcast tells their stories, then we discuss an even greater Power available to those who depend upon him as our living Lord.
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| 1:06.2 | in a world in desperate need of both. |
| 1:11.3 | Tom Hanks delivered a virtual commencement address last weekend for the graduates of Ohio's |
| 1:17.1 | Wright State University. He called them the chosen ones, in part because of the pandemic |
| 1:22.8 | that has changed our lives so dramatically. The actor explained, you are the chosen ones because of a fate |
| 1:29.8 | unimagined when you began your right state adventures. As a result, he predicted, you will be |
| 1:35.8 | enlightened in ways your degree never held in promise. You will have made it through a time of |
| 1:41.2 | great sacrifice and great need. No one will be more fresh to the task |
| 1:46.0 | of restarting our normality than you, our chosen ones. Yesterday was Star Wars Day with its |
| 1:55.0 | annual slogan, May the Fourth be with you. But today is also special for Star Wars fans. Since the fifth rhymes with |
| 2:03.0 | Sith, the ancient enemies of the Jedi Order, the Star Wars universe has been a cultural phenomenon |
| 2:09.1 | for more than four decades, in large part because of its assurance that the Force will be with |
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