As I write this, my eldest daughter, Heaven, just turned eight. She was diagnosed with generalized absence seizures in April 2022. This was perhaps the most painful news we had ever...

Due to limited space, disorganization, and too much stuff that I fail to discard, my home is not tidy. Especially as the holidays approach, it seems that I add to the...

One Saturday evening, my family and I had just had a good dinner. On our walk home, we decided to stop by the grocery store for a few things. It was...

My cellmate for the past eight months has been a 55-year-old man named Russ who suffers from moderate dementia. Having completed his sentence, Russ was released from prison last week with...

Watching the flashing light fill my bedroom, I listened to the thunder and rain outside my window. Despite the darkness of the storm, dawn was breaking. I could hear birds singing,...

As a child, I always looked forward to Christmas because we usually traveled back home to visit our extended family. We gave and received lots of gifts and ate nice meals...

On a cool summer morning I eagerly strolled into a blueberry patch with my empty bucket. Rows of blueberry bushes lined the country landscape as birds sang sweetly in the distance....

Neither my wife nor I sleep well these days. While she usually remains in bed on restless nights, I go to the other room and sit on the couch with a...

With joy I watch for the local newspaper announcement: “She’s here!” Every year I look forward to news about Grandma Mount Yamamoto, the female Steller’s sea eagle that roosts on Mount...

Sometimes we have difficulty understanding the great love our Savior has for each one of us. Jesus will likely not ask us to die for our friends, yet he does ask...