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WRITINGS OF BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN
Bumps and Blessings
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BUMPS AND BLESSINGS

When I was younger, I’d always complained about the bumps on the road. I’d think, “Why do they have to put these here?” They’d slow me down and mess up my rhythm, and I just wanted to get where I was going faster. But one day, I realized that those bumps weren’t there to annoy me but to protect me. They were there to make sure I didn’t go too fast around a corner or miss something important. They were there to keep me safe.

In life, we all hit bumps in the road. Maybe you’re facing a challenge right now. Maybe you lost a job, had a relationship that didn’t work out, or you’ve been praying for a breakthrough, and it hasn’t come yet. It’s easy to think, “Why this bump, God? Why is this slowing me down?”

This Week in Armenian History
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DEATH OF RICHARD YARDUMIAN

Richard Yardumian was an Armenian-American classical music composer who was associated to Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra for two decades.

Yardumian was born in Philadelphia on April 5, 1917. He was the youngest of ten children and began studying the piano at a very early age. His father, Rev. Haig Yardumian, was the founding pastor of the Philadelphia Armenian Evangelical community and his mother, Lucia, was a teacher and organist.

One of his brothers, Elijah Yardumian, a concert pianist who graduated from the Curtis Institute, served as a musical mentor. Richard Yardumian began composing at age 14 and began a formal study of piano, harmony, theory and …

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