Each year when my husband and I planted corn, we 
marveled as the kernels we planted would grow and become stalks with many ears of corn, each ear with many kernels...

Where I live, March is a transition month. Spring wants to pop through, but winter isn’t quite finished with us. I get antsy during the month of March. My hands itch...

As a former college football player, I take special notice when Paul refers to sports. In the reading above Paul wrote, “Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to...

Some months ago I joined my local church’s prayer shawl ministry and began knitting and crocheting with a group of women. In the early stages of my work with the group,...

My six-year-old son, Sabalo, had been diagnosed with a tumor. After many medical examinations, including two 
biopsies, we learned that the tumor was growing and could not be successfully radiated. Five...

Sitting alone on a park bench, I fought back tears of frustration. I was certain that my life was dedicated to God, and I tried faithfully to follow God’s leading. I...

A new year makes me acutely conscious of the passage of time: how we allow calendars and clocks to dominate us, how there is never enough time for what we need...

Our church has had a long-standing relationship with the elementary school down the hill from us. Church members provide for students’ material needs — from school supplies to underwear. Recently church...

Once more, I removed a sheet of paper from the watercolor block on which I was painting so I could start over. The angel I had been trying to paint looked...

Anyone who knows my father-in-law, John, knows he loves God. He is also never at a loss for words. Sometimes he makes astute observations. Sometimes he simply reminds people of an...