Our church recently lost one of its matriarchs. Over the course of her long life, Liz was an important mentor to many in our church. Many years ago, shortly after we...

Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Mountains that looked just like the ones I had left behind in Pennsylvania seemed to fill the horizon as I drove down an unfamiliar...

When I was a child, my father would gather the whole family together every evening to read the Bible and The Upper Room. When we prayed together and he gave a...

One Sunday morning I found myself looking out at the backyard, which was cloaked in a layer of snow. As I stood enjoying the beautiful wintry scene, I noticed that a...

On a recent vacation I took two of my sons to northern New Mexico where we saw many beautiful places and visited a number of historic sites. We also spent one...

In the spring of 2002 I was trying to find my way back to God. Having planted about ten impatiens plants around our hickory tree, I was using my plant-watering time...

Recently I had a terrible cold. My throat was sore; I was aching, feeling run-down, and my nose was running. I had no medicine, so I decided to get some fresh...

It was one of those days when nothing seemed to go right. Milk boiled over. The dog went missing, and I was late for an appointment because the car wouldn’t start....

I enjoy exercising by attending an aerobic dance class. Many times the instructor shouts words of encouragement from her place in the front. With an elastic band held in each of...

For years, my husband and I shared the sink in our bathroom. Toothpaste splatter was always on the faucet — the spots put there, I was certain, by my husband. And...