One day while cooking yet another big meal in our family kitchen, I sighed and asked aloud, “What will others remember most about me when I’m gone — the cooking or...

One night when my younger brother and I were kids, he had a nightmare. I gave him a hug and asked him to go back to sleep. But he said the...

Our senior ministry group has added a new line to the above verse: “We were stranded and you rescued us.” On a trip to Jackson, Georgia, our bus experienced transmission trouble....

Most of my religious friends seem to think that religious people should fit a particular mold. I am outgoing and inquisitive, and my friends don’t think I should behave that way....

As predicted, the severe thunderstorms had blown through our area with a vengeance; but now the sun shone more radiantly than usual. Yet I felt as broken as the tree limbs...

Strip clubs aren’t places you would typically expect a church group to go in search of friends. But for years, my friend Tonya and other women from her church went there...

A woman whom I had supervised 35 years before was reaching her retirement and asked me to say a few words on her behalf. I happily agreed. In the presentation of...

Our congregation was shocked when our pastor’s wife, Susan, died unexpectedly at age 55. She had been taking care of her mother out of town, so our pastor immediately left to...

One of my earliest childhood memories is when my grandparents surprised us by arriving at our doorstep unannounced. They lived eight hours away so we were overjoyed to see them. My...

I have always been fascinated by Kintsugi, the traditional Japanese art of mending broken pieces of pottery with liquid gold, silver, or lacquer — thus highlighting and enhancing the breaks and...