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And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude,
and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude,
and was moved with compassion toward them,
and he healed their sick.

And Jesus went forth,
and saw a great multitude,
and was moved with
compassion toward them,
and he healed their sick.

— Matthew 14:14 KJV —


Beating wings, flipping fins, pumping legs and arms;
Waving flags, rolling wheels, sliding in a groove;
Twitching tails of cows in herds, buzzing bees in swarms;
Whirring saws and gliding belts in factories improve;
Swaying branches, breezy fields, harvesting on farms;
Alms, good deeds, and kindness from compassion's heart approve—
Photos, paintings, drawings capture moments in their charms,
while videos show stories and ideas through things that move.
May all our captured motion tales uplift, as would behoove.

Beating wings, flipping fins, pumping legs and arms;
Waving flags, rolling wheels, sliding in a groove;
Twitching tails of cows in herds, buzzing bees in swarms;
Whirring saws and gliding belts in factories improve;
Swaying branches, breezy fields, harvesting on farms;
Alms, good deeds, and kindness from compassion's heart approve—
Photos, paintings, drawings capture moments in their charms,
while videos show stories and ideas through things that move.
May all our captured motion tales uplift, as would behoove.

Beating wings, flipping fins,
pumping legs and arms;
Waving flags, rolling wheels,
sliding in a groove;
Twitching tails of cows in herds,
buzzing bees in swarms;
Whirring saws and gliding belts
in factories improve;
Swaying branches, breezy fields,
harvesting on farms;
Alms, good deeds, and kindness
from compassion's heart approve—
Photos, paintings, drawings
capture moments in their charms,
while videos show stories and ideas
through things that move.
May all our captured motion tales
uplift, as would behoove.

– MHP (2016_1121) –

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Videos are paradoxes: They can capture the most gently flowing rivers of emotions running through our hearts while telling stories via rapid-fire sequences of still images. They can also create rapid-fire changes in blood pressure if their images and sequences portray distressing, heart-breaking, or violent tales or tempestuous scene changes. Sometimes such elements are necessary to properly tell even an uplifting story; for example, the victory of Jesus Christ over death would be moot if He were not first betrayed, condemned, and then crucified. But even such tales can be told in ways that do not focus on the grisly details.

May the videos we create abstain from wonton violence, detailed sexual inferences and acts, degrading and bathroom humor, profanity and racial slurs, and any other non-uplifting element that brings focus to itself rather than the point of an otherwise uplifting tale. Our world needs peace more than war, love more than hate, kindness more than bullying, personal value more than objectification, and unity more than division. If we are to finally bring peace to mankind and prepare a world where the lamb truly can lie down safely with the lion, charity must be our banner—and all of the stories we tell, whether through books, songs, images, videos, or any other medium, must focus on that attribute above all others.

Please enjoy the videos below of uplifting tales shared through speech and song. (As with all of the pages on this Web site, I will add to the content of this page as time and resources allow.)

For even more uplifting videos, please visit the other pages of this Web site that open from the navigation menu. Each menu and sub-menu item opens a page that describes and links to one or more uplifting videos—in a “Please also enjoy” container like the one below—in addition to that page’s primary content.

Videos are paradoxes: They can capture the most gently flowing rivers of emotions running through our hearts while telling stories via rapid-fire sequences of still images. They can also create rapid-fire changes in blood pressure if their images and sequences portray distressing, heart-breaking, or violent tales or tempestuous scene changes. Sometimes such elements are necessary to properly tell even an uplifting story; for example, the victory of Jesus Christ over death would be moot if He were not first betrayed, condemned, and then crucified. But even such tales can be told in ways that do not focus on the grisly details.

May the videos we create abstain from wonton violence, detailed sexual inferences and acts, degrading and bathroom humor, profanity and racial slurs, and any other non-uplifting element that brings focus to itself rather than the point of an otherwise uplifting tale. Our world needs peace more than war, love more than hate, kindness more than bullying, personal value more than objectification, and unity more than division. If we are to finally bring peace to mankind and prepare a world where the lamb truly can lie down safely with the lion, charity must be our banner—and all of the stories we tell, whether through books, songs, images, videos, or any other medium, must focus on that attribute above all others.

Please enjoy the videos below of uplifting tales shared through speech and song. (As with all of the pages on this Web site, I will add to the content of this page as time and resources allow.)

For even more uplifting videos, please visit the other pages of this Web site that open from the navigation menu. Each menu and sub-menu item opens a page that describes and links to one or more uplifting videos—in a “Please also enjoy” container like the one below—in addition to that page’s primary content.

Videos are paradoxes: They can capture the most gently flowing rivers of emotions running through our hearts while telling stories via rapid-fire sequences of still images. They can also create rapid-fire changes in blood pressure if their images and sequences portray distressing, heart-breaking, or violent tales or tempestuous scene changes. Sometimes such elements are necessary to properly tell even an uplifting story; for example, the victory of Jesus Christ over death would be moot if He were not first betrayed, condemned, and then crucified. But even such tales can be told in ways that do not focus on the grisly details.

May the videos we create abstain from wonton violence, detailed sexual inferences and acts, degrading and bathroom humor, profanity and racial slurs, and any other non-uplifting element that brings focus to itself rather than the point of an otherwise uplifting tale. Our world needs peace more than war, love more than hate, kindness more than bullying, personal value more than objectification, and unity more than division. If we are to finally bring peace to mankind and prepare a world where the lamb truly can lie down safely with the lion, charity must be our banner—and all of the stories we tell, whether through books, songs, images, videos, or any other medium, must focus on that attribute above all others.

Please enjoy the videos below of uplifting tales shared through speech and song. (As with all of the pages on this Web site, I will add to the content of this page as time and resources allow.)

For even more uplifting videos, please visit the other pages of this Web site that open from the navigation menu. Each menu and sub-menu item opens a page that describes and links to one or more uplifting videos—in a “Please also enjoy” container like the one below—in addition to that page’s primary content.

Please also enjoy a YouTube video of my favorite rendition of O Holy Night, as sung by the King’s Singers with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

The arrangement—for multi-part men’s voices—establishes a harmonically open secondary melody in the choir under a gorgeous six-part harmonization of the main melody, which the King’s Singers perform as only they can. The entire song drives slowly forward to a dramatic climax wherein the top tenors soar to B-flats and all declare without reservation that “Christ is the Lord” and acclaim His power and glory; the song then descends from that pinnacle back to the manger in reverence and awe, and the choir’s melody and harmonic progression, which never really resolves before this, finally comes to resolution and rest.

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Evening Prayer video block image: Second Coming sunset over Kvaløya 1 (From near Sand, Norway)

ID: YT001/D21016

2010_0512 22:20

Evening Prayer (img D21016 shown)
(From near Sand, Norway)

The Glen Ellyn-Wheaton Chorale performs The Cloths of Heaven by René Clausen (Wheaton, IL, USA)

ID: YT002

2016_0507 15:28

GEWC performs The Cloths of Heaven
(Wheaton, IL, USA)

René Clausen talk on composition (Wheaton, IL, USA)

ID: YT003/4/5

2016_0507 14:04

René Clausen talk on composition
(Wheaton, IL, USA)

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