In the late 1940s, my family took the only vacation of my childhood. My father could not take regular vacations because of his job, but one year we went to a...

As an animal lover, I was ecstatic to apply and interview for a job managing a local veterinary clinic. It was my dream job. The interview with the clinic owner couldn’t...

“Sister, will you come to my dinner on July 24th?” my friend asked. I had met this friend in a Christian fellowship group in 2019, but I later joined a new...

The months following my cancer diagnosis felt incredibly long. There were medical appointments, several scans and tests, followed by more appointments, and then waiting for surgery. One week after surgery, I...

As soon as the words left my mouth, I regretted saying them. I shook with anger from our argument, but I knew I needed to apologize to my husband. But I...

I remember being caught in a snowstorm while driving through a high mountain pass. The snow soon developed into a blizzard, and I was unable to see more than a few...

When my husband of 25 years told me he thought our marriage was over, I was stunned, devastated, and afraid. For a few weeks, I walked around in a daze —...

As I rounded a corner on the parkway, I was dazzled by the wonderful sight of glistening snow on the Brindabella Mountains. It was a freezing-cold, wintry day in Canberra as...

A local church uses a renovated movie theater as their house of worship. Along the roads leading to their parking lot, the church has erected large billboards that proclaim, “You Belong!”...

My son had been in pain for three months, and when he went in for a scan, it showed that he had a small growth on one of his bones. My...