One February morning, I walked into the church’s daycare center and found the room filled with valentines — red hearts, pink hearts, hearts adorned with paper doilies, hearts cut from magazines....

Roughly two years ago, my doctors discovered I had breast cancer, and I spent the following year fighting the disease. During that time, I suffered. I asked everyone to pray and...

Beautiful Queen of the Night flowers grew in our yard. My family loved to stay up late and enjoy their pleasant fragrance. However, during last year’s dry season, a fire destroyed...

My husband and I had served as youth helpers for two years when our pastor approached us about the need for a youth pastor at a small church across the state....

For several years I lived in a place where electricity could not be depended on. Most days we had electricity for three or four hours in the evening, but when the...

I began visiting a young woman who lived in a poor, run-down part of town. She had been ill and in bed for days, and she did not have anyone to...

Having low vision sometimes hinders me, but it also forces me to look more closely at things. Since I can’t always trust my depth perception, I occasionally rely on touch to...

I was in high school when my mother died after a long battle with cancer. I was not only sad; I was angry with God. I couldn’t see any purpose in...

One day I began to feel disturbed by thoughts of what my future might look like. I wondered if I had made a wrong choice, and I felt confused and overwhelmed...

While talking with my wife at dinner, I asked her about the value of pi (π) — the number that starts out 3.14159. It is used for calculating the circumference and...