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In these days of science, instant information, every diversion imaginable and unbridled humanism - does anyone else feel that we have gotten...

It was no small sacrifice that my parents took me and my daughter into their home. They still had six children at home - all of them teenag...

During the 'year of return' to my marriage, the drinking and violence escalated while I watched a normal, happy life slip away from ...

Time passed, and I would like to say that my marriage improved - but it did not. I left my husband, returning to him a few weeks later to fl...

More time passed and my relationship with God grew in fits and spurts surrounded by long periods of repose. Our little family never returned...

Time passed as it sometimes does - quickly and quietly. My father's employer transferred him to Connecticut leaving me in Kentucky with ...

I finally did walk down that aisle with tears streaming down my face just as others had done before me. I was not embarrassed to proclaim th...

Four years passed. I had married and my daughter was born a short time later. To make ends meet, I worked part-time as a cashier for a regio...

I am eighteen and pregnant. I had never felt so alone and scared. I know now that many young women faced this crossroads from childhood to w...

Each morning, I spend eighteen precious minutes driving to work on a tree lined parkway. This drive has become my pause between the flurry o...

Why does a soldier fight? A soldier fights over there so we do not fight the war here. A soldier fights for the Rabbi reading from the Torah...

Spring is here! I love spring when the aroma of the awakening earth runs along the wind and through the leaves on the once barren branches. ...

"After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself wa...

"Thus the Lord God showed me; behold a basket of summer fruit." Amos 8:1 RSV The first harvest has been completed leaving room in ...

"As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing odor. " ...

This morning you told me that you love me. I want you to know that I love you, too. How can I express my love to you with mere words? They a...

We are all on a journey crossing the waters of life to a distant shore. We all start from the same place, but not all of us reach our destin...

"...but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6:15 RSV There are ...

God has carried me to a unique position in my spiritual walk with him. Some thirty years ago, I walked down the aisle of a small Baptist chu...

"What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' And he ans...