As I walked down a hall in our church, I heard cheerful voices from a nearby room. Looking in, I saw the women of our church’s prayer-quilt ministry gathered around tables...

One day, my colleague brought her four-year-old son, Jorge, to the office for a visit. After chatting with us for a bit, he was ready to leave. His mother was holding...

I had called the help line to fix a computer problem and was placed on hold. The music began to play while I was waiting. Not being a person who wastes...

A short time after I had knee surgery, my wife had grab bars installed to help me get around our house. They were an incredible aid. Whenever I thought that my...

I live in a two-story house. When we do laundry, my mother irons our clothes downstairs, and I have to climb steep stairs carrying piles of clothes with both hands. As...

When my son began to have severe back pain seven years ago, nothing helped. After dealing with the pain for several years, he confided in me that the pain was becoming...

My husband grew up working in his family garden and still enjoys growing his own vegetables. One year, we had an abundance of heavy rain. Roads closed, bridges were washed out,...

In 2014 my family and I migrated from Pakistan to Canada. Although we had many comforts and blessings in Pakistan, some domestic situations led us to make the tough decision to...

“I’m sorry; there was nothing we could do,” the ER doctor said to the bereaved family. “I’ll leave you with the chaplain now.” The elderly woman and her son huddled together,...

When I moved from the city back to my small hometown and to the little church where I had grown up, I assumed that the church was too small to be...