The man cocked his rifle and directed it at my chest. I was just about to pull out my gun when I felt a sharp pain in my torso. I was trying to see wh...
There is a story many years ago of an elementary teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson. And as she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very fir...
One afternoon about a week before Christmas, my family of four piled into our minivan to run an errand, and this question came from a small voice in t...
Most of us long for relationships in which we are loved and accepted just the way we are. Our hearts' desire is to give and receive love in relati...
I didn't know the man in front of me that morning. But I did notice that we both walked a little straighter, a little more proudly, as our daughte...
I watched through blurred vision as my husband, Chuck, walked away with his ex-wife.The heaviness in all our hearts was almost unbearable. Turning bac...
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or t...
IN THE DOORWAY of my home, I looked closely at the face of my 23-year-old son, Daniel, his backpack by his side. We were saying good-bye. In a few hou...
Today I saw a butterfly,as it floated in the air;Its wings were spread in splendor,Unaware that I was there.It was such a thing of beauty,It was a sig...
I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid... until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to...