Once or twice a year, my husband’s uncle would drive from his Indiana home to a northwestern desert. He said he needed to get away from everything and spend some time...

As part of my pastoral responsibilities at a local hospital, I was called to the bedside of an elderly woman. I found her shouting out in anguish to Jesus and then...

Prostate cancer had metastasized to the bones throughout my husband’s body. The next morning, my first thought was, Earle is dying, and nothing is ever going to be all right again....

Recently I turned 73. During the previous year, I had begun to feel life shifting. My body was aging — my strength, energy, and endurance lessening. I had to give up...

When Jesus was passing by, the two blind men sitting by the road cried out to him. When Jesus asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” (NIV) they...

I recently had two operations just six weeks apart to remove large kidney stones from both my kidneys. Following each operation I bemoaned the days I lost, unable to focus at...

My son loves to run. He spends hours and hours after school running in our rural community — across miles of terrain that changes from asphalt streets to roughly packed gravel...

My father showed symptoms that made us fear he had suffered a stroke. I suddenly had a terrifying thought: What if my father died? I felt that my life would be...

On the way home while on a walk, I became disoriented and got lost. Because I am blind, I relied on the position of the sun and on cardinal directions from...

It had been two years since I’d heard the oncologist describe my painful cancer as incurable. I felt as if I were riding on prayers as my friends, family, and church...