The money I had put aside for my church offering had somehow disappeared. It wasn’t a huge sum, but I searched carefully everywhere inside the house and even looked outside, thinking...

Growing up in the ‘70s before on-demand programming and video streaming, my family had one TV with three major channels. When the dramatic miniseries became a popular genre and a new...

I stood alone on the rooftop, watching the city celebrate with fireworks at the promise of the coming year. A failed relationship had left me feeling adrift and unsure of my...

I had just brought my wife home from a cancer operation when a snowstorm hit. I’m in my late 80s and have a bad back, so shoveling the driveway was pressing...

For years, my parents owned a small cottage on the Oregon coast. It was a wonderful retreat and the perfect place to spend summers. But one particularly rough winter, an extreme...

It can be a terrifying feeling to lose your bearings and come to the realization that you are lost. As a young teen at scout camp, the leaders would remind us...

One Sunday, the lay youth leader at church had the children act out a scene from an old TV show. The moral of the lesson was that each of us has...

When I was in junior high school, I played the trumpet. I can vividly remember trying to learn how to play. It took a lot of air! When I look back...

I recently learned about “glimmers,” which are small moments in the day that make us feel joy, peace, and gratitude. The more we train our brains to be on the lookout...

My two young grandchildren arrived three days before Christmas to celebrate the holiday at my house. In the dining room, I had set out a decades-old nativity scene, except I left...