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Mother’s Day Tears

"I love you, Mom." Her thirty-five-year-old daughter's words entered Sara's heart in the midst of a pleasant phone conversation. Then the two returned to the subject they had been discussing. Later, before they hung up, her daughter again uttered those words, and Sara knew her child had turned a life-changing corner. A soft joy spread its light through her heart. In years past, their relationship had gone through hard times. Her daughter entered those teen… Read More

A Prayer Not Forgotten

"Beth, you're going blind." My optometrist's words sank like a stone in my seventeen-year-old heart. He must have caught my utter dismay because he quickly went on. "Don't worry. We may be able to stop, even reverse your condition a little, with something new." The "something new" he referred to were contact lenses. My heart sank further. How could a high school senior afford anything that cost the equivalent of a college semester's tuition? My… Read More

What Amazing Love!

I'll never forget the evening Jim and I watched Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" at our local movie theater. As we exited with other patrons, no one uttered a word! What we had just witnessed on the screen--the unvarnished horror Jesus' sufferings--had stunned us to silence. As I recall the movie's content, all I can say is, "What amazing love God has for us!" That Jesus would willingly suffer such a horrible death… Read More