During my senior year of college, all was well in my world. I planned to go to seminary and to marry my college sweetheart. But then she broke up with me....

Growing up in the London suburbs, I remember mischievous children knocking at our door and running off before my mother had time to open it. She would be puzzled and then...

The year 2018 was one of enormous change for me. My daughter was born, and both of my grandmothers died within a three-month period. After constant prayer I came to the...

As a teenager, I would wake my sister every Sunday morning and ask, “Do you want to go to church with me?” She always said no, but then one day she...

While preparing to plant cassava, I had to clear tall grass from the plot of land. I decided to burn the partially green, partially dried grass. Because it was not a...

While hiking a mountain trail on my way to explore an abandoned gold mine, I thought of the elderly man who had shown me the trailhead and described his hike up...

In the past, sleep sometimes eluded me. Though I would try to relax, I would “replay” conversations from the day and consider how I might have responded differently. Sometimes I would...

For a long time I believed that there was only one clear path for my life and that if I missed it, I would be out of God’s perfect will for...

I was in my twenties and working in the IT department of a hospital. The department was located in the basement of the parking garage, so I took walks at lunchtime...

Today’s quoted verses were my childhood pastor’s favorite opening greeting to our small, rural congregation in eastern Virginia. He worked as a church planter and started many churches throughout the 1950s,...