The printer for our devotional book notified us that we didn’t have enough funds for the 1,000 copies we had planned to print. Still sure the book would come out, I...

My friend has sent me greeting cards for the past 30 years. She doesn’t send just a birthday or a Christmas card, she sends a card for every holiday. She never...

My busy life came to a halt when my right hip began to hurt. By the time hip replacement surgery was scheduled, I was dependent on a walker. I’d never had...

It can be easy to prioritize many things over God: our families, jobs, studies, sports, or music. When I was a teenager, I gave importance to things like the cinema, games,...

When Paulette, my wife of 50 years, died suddenly of a heart attack, I was not prepared for the devastation her loss would cause in my life. But I turned to...

When I was a young girl, my grandmother kept a bowl full of plastic fruit on her coffee table. My sister and I would play a game by taking turns selecting...

“I lost Pop!” my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson would say when I would leave the house to go to work. For the first few years of his life, he and his mother, our...

Several friends of mine are planning to move to other companies. They have sent many letters out, but most of them have received no reply. A few were invited to interviews,...

In Mark 9, when some of the disciples were unable to heal a boy with an evil spirit, Jesus reassured the father of the boy, who then responded, “I do believe;...

I had lived in my mobile home community for a year, but I am shy and had met few of my neighbors. One rainy afternoon I looked across the street into...