Shortly after our daughter was born, while my husband was holding her and offering her a bottle, the nurse noticed that our baby was struggling to breathe. Pushing my husband aside,...

The money I had put aside for my church offering had somehow disappeared. It wasn’t a huge sum, but I searched carefully everywhere inside the house and even looked outside, thinking...

Growing up in the ‘70s before on-demand programming and video streaming, my family had one TV with three major channels. When the dramatic miniseries became a popular genre and a new...

I stood alone on the rooftop, watching the city celebrate with fireworks at the promise of the coming year. A failed relationship had left me feeling adrift and unsure of my...

I had just brought my wife home from a cancer operation when a snowstorm hit. I’m in my late 80s and have a bad back, so shoveling the driveway was pressing...

For years, my parents owned a small cottage on the Oregon coast. It was a wonderful retreat and the perfect place to spend summers. But one particularly rough winter, an extreme...

It can be a terrifying feeling to lose your bearings and come to the realization that you are lost. As a young teen at scout camp, the leaders would remind us...

One Sunday, the lay youth leader at church had the children act out a scene from an old TV show. The moral of the lesson was that each of us has...

When I was in junior high school, I played the trumpet. I can vividly remember trying to learn how to play. It took a lot of air! When I look back...

I recently learned about “glimmers,” which are small moments in the day that make us feel joy, peace, and gratitude. The more we train our brains to be on the lookout...