Since I have no car or motorcycle, I often walk 30 minutes to church. One day, one of my friends said, “The distance is so far; don’t you get tired?” With...

My co-worker John spends most Saturdays with his grandson, Carson. They wear matching red shirts for their fun adventures and work days together. The relationship is filled with love, trust, caring,...

When my wife and I were in England a few years ago, we noticed that nearly every house had a name posted on the outside. We had rented a 15th-century house...

When I was young, I wanted to be a pop star because I wanted fame and money. For as long as I could remember, my mother and I had been surviving...

When I arrived at the grocery store to pick up the pizza for our fundraiser, I was already running late. I had just finished officiating a wedding 40 miles away and...

In 2005 I was unjustly removed from my job. For 14 months I remained at home, waiting, while my case was under review. Each morning I woke up anxious and sad,...

After the worship service in the small rural church, the two dozen worshipers moved into an adjoining room for coffee and snacks. Although I was a visitor, I knew one man...

One morning on vacation, my daughter and I took a walk along the beach. We saw a small crab sidling quickly toward the water. But the tide was coming in, and...

At our home in Oregon, we keep an umbrella by our door because we get such heavy rain from October to April that we can go for days without seeing the...

My wife and I sit in our sunroom every morning and watch the birds feed at our strategically placed birdfeeders. One day I noticed a blackbird that had the brightest red...