Each of us is given a portion of life, whether it lasts 27 years or 83, and most of us spend it consumed by the urgent, missing what is essential. But we are surrounded by things that have the power to take us beyond ourselves into the flow of what the ancients called "kairos" time. Contrary to the artificial clock time by which we spend our lives in incremental bits, "kairos" moves like a great river beneath even the most mundane of days. "Praying the Hours" tells the stories of eight interwoven characters impacted at just such epiphanal moments throughout one day. These are the chances they are given to glimpse the eternal, chances to step into a new life. Their own. "Praying the Hours" isn't any one person's story. It's everyone's story. more info [to come] | imdb | Praying the Hours website

When a freak accident kills her fiancé, 25-year-old Tamara Johnston quits a dream job to try to make sense of her new unwanted life. Paralyzing grief intensifies both her desire to die and her deepening faith, resulting in a fierce deadline: show me something better than death, or I am out of here.

Johnston launches a business, becomes an activist, develops her life’s work, and risks love again—but none of it is enough. As time passes in her bargain with God, an opportune trip to Africa gives her a glimpse of what is required of her in exchange for a sustainable life.

more info | imdb | The Fair Trade website

Tamara Johnston, her twin Shelby Johnston Moser, and Steven Moser are the founders of Anti-Body fair trade skincare products

See a promo for Anti-Body here

For most of her adult life, Marcia Whitehead has lived in a little garage apartment in Southern California and worked a modest-wage job. Like most of us, she lives paycheck to paycheck, and has more debt than savings. And, like most of us, she dreams of an abundant life, beyond the ordinary.

Her body is built to sing what is considered by many to be the hardest repertoire in song. When she was first told that she was a rare, lirico-spinto soprano, she was disappointed because she did not care for opera. Nevertheless, she was obedient to what she believed was God's imperative call to develop her talent: for over twenty years, she worked her 9 to 5 during the day, paying for coaches and teachers to train her voice on weekends and nights. Along the way, she learned to love the characters in the operas that were written for her voice: Andrea Chenier, Aida, Manon Lescaut, Adriana Lecouvrer, Tosca.

A random acquaintance offered to arrange a hearing by Maestro Franco Iglesias—a world-renowned vocal instructor in New York City—whose students once included world class tenor Placido Domingo. It took a year just to arrange the audition, during which Iglesias would judge her chances at a late-blooming career. In the time that follows, it becomes clear that Marcia's dream of an abundant life has already come true.

More information | imdb | Laundry and Tosca website