One day while I visited a construction site with my father, my puppy wandered away. I heard him wailing and discovered he had fallen into a hole. I tried to retrieve...

For years I viewed health issues, career setbacks, and other difficulties as frustrating interruptions to the life I wanted. Every time I overcame a tough situation, another one sprang up, slowing...

I walked around the cornfields near my home. They were empty, barren, void of any life. The wind was the only sound in the low sloping hills. I could relate to...

One day, a bakery donated five times their regular amount of day-old bread to the donation program run by the pregnancy center in our city. It was more than the pregnancy...

It felt like winter had lasted all year. I was tired of salting the sidewalk, drying out wet boots, and scraping the car windows. My mood reflected the dark, short days....

When my children were young, I showed them an interesting experiment I had heard about. I cut a few wildflowers called Queen Anne’s lace and placed several of them in three...

Wanting to get a birthday present for my mother, I walked a mile to the nearest mall and stopped at a department-store jewelry counter. Everything under the glass was either unappealing...

At the beginning of winter, I took a walk through the woods and was remembering that the trees had been beautiful and full of colorful leaves only a few weeks prior....

I find driving our motor home extremely scary. I worry that I will misjudge the size of the vehicle while driving around roundabouts, along narrow roads, and in congested areas. However,...

In high school, I didn’t fully grasp how important it is to be a part of a Christ-centered community. I heard other students in my church’s youth ministry talk about the...