An MRI revealed that the excruciating pain in my shoulder was due to a problem with some vertebrae in my spine. I elected to have surgery, but when I came out...

Last summer, my car broke down on a remote road during a long-distance move. With no cell service and the nearest town miles away, I felt my anxiety rising. In that...

Several years ago, I noticed an older man who sat shivering in a parking lot near my office. When I asked if he was okay, he said he had left home...

One cool morning I decided to have some hot tea. I love the aroma of spiced tea as much as I enjoy savoring the taste of it. Wanting to hurry the...

God knows that there are days when we feel like giving up on prayer. Maybe we think there are bigger problems in the world, or we feel that God isn’t interested....

Just after my first year of high school, I desperately needed a change. I had been going to a private school my entire life and living in the bubble that comes...

It’s winter time in Australia. In our garden, the jonquils are having their best winter ever, with lots of yellow and creamy, white flowers. There has been enough sunshine to keep...

My brother-in-law Phil had been a creative man who taught art, loved nature, and made hand-crafted jewelry, wood items, and pottery. When he died, my family dressed thoughtfully for his celebration-of-life...

Every January my church devotes 21 days to prayer and fasting. Each day starts at six in the morning with a prayer service in the church’s sanctuary. Congregants are encouraged to...

In the forest where I live, there are two primary types of trees: birches and evergreens. Birch trees turn golden yellow in autumn and then lose their leaves, carpeting the forest...