I remember my first Maundy Thursday worship service. I didn’t know what to expect; to be honest, I didn’t know what Maundy meant! Maundy, I learned, was a shortened form of...

When my wife was diagnosed with an aggressive form of dementia, we were devastated. I watched helplessly as our 27 years of marriage slowly disappeared from her memory. I struggled to...

Due to a sinus infection, one of my ears became filled with fluid. I could hear clearly out of my good ear, but the other only registered muffled sounds. I became...

When I moved to Lucknow, I was longing for a good job and had many interviews. When I couldn’t find a job, I became so frustrated that I decided to give...

I enjoy needlework. I begin with a blank piece of material, and I start placing the colorful stitches according to the pattern. It doesn’t look like much at first, but as...

When I think of signs that keep people safe or offer guidance, I first think of traffic lights, lighthouses, and billboards. But we often forget how much more valuable we are...

At church one Sunday I learned of a woman in the community whose husband had just died. They had four children. At God’s urging, I attended the funeral to lend my...

One morning as my husband and I enjoyed breakfast outside, a juvenile egret wandered from the pond until he was nearly within our reach. Totally oblivious to us, he looked upward...

It was our practice in high school to look for one another’s lost items (pens, rulers, pencils, etc.). Whenever a lost item was found, the class prefect would stand in front...

In the last week of my dad’s life, he didn’t complain as he lay in the ICU. Instead, he wanted to be sure that I was getting enough rest at night...