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Michael W. Smith knows all about second chances. Check out this current Family Life Today broadcast where he talks about how some poor choices led him to drugs, depression, and an existence of no joy - spiraling down toward what would have surely been death…

Christian recording artist and three-time Grammy Award winner Michael W. Smith talks about his formative years on today’s broadcast with host Dennis Rainey.

• Transcript - 2/15/2006

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we un-consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we feel liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

–Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech, written by Marianne Williamson.