When I was young, I used to go with my grandmother to paint ceramics. She would let me pick out a piece to paint. After I finished painting, my grandmother would...

I was ready for bed when Keri, my two-year-old granddaughter, came bouncing in. She was returning from a day at the lake, where she had been visiting her paternal grandmother. She...

My mother had the gift of hospitality. Even when we had very little money, she would whip up a spaghetti dinner with lots of steaming pasta and flavorful sauce and just...

In today’s reading, we find a man suffering with a painful and (at the time) incurable disease. The effects of leprosy (now called Hansen’s disease) were severe and evident to all....

Our pastor recently challenged us to discover the depths of generosity and the blessings of giving. For each of 15 days, we were given a new task designed to help us...

Several years ago after returning from my evening walk I composed these words for my journal: “I saw a tree today, straight and tall, rooted in the clay. Its branches spread...

I grew up going to church with my parents every Sunday. At first I did not understand anything at all and thought that church was only for adults. But as I...

During the 1980s I visited the Philippines on several occasions. I always looked forward to my daily run along a jungle road. It stretched from the city up the mountain through...

Several years ago, I invested in a new bike. I rode around my neighborhood, occasionally down to a nearby park on the shores of Lake Erie, sometimes to my secretarial job...

“Do you pray? Would you like me to pray for you and me?” I was lying on the gurney awaiting an operation as I heard these words from my surgeon. After...