I love the early morning when it is still dark but the pale light of dawn is beginning to show. I rise early and then I listen for the soft, lonely...

I enjoy babysitting my granddaughter, Molly. But recently she had a fever and didn’t feel well. An unhappy, sick two-year-old can be a challenge. Yet Molly has taught me a lesson...

Our home has been under construction for quite some time now. We have taken down walls and ceilings. But many of the changes have been internal improvements that do not show,...

The day’s news brought another image of refugees. I had seen many scenes of distraught people huddled together on their perilous sea journey or their long march to safety and new...

Over the years, my neighborhood has become home to a rather large stray-cat population. Several of us within the community provide clean drinking water and fresh food for these cats daily...

Nine years ago when I held my first-born child, Melina, for the first time, I knew I had what had been missing in my life. I knew that there in that...

In 2013 my husband, Danny, suffered a heart attack that left him with a heart function capacity of only 30 percent, and he received a pacemaker. It felt like a miracle...

I started running for exercise at age 55. Since I live on a farm, I do most of my running on farm lanes or rural roads. I rarely see a car;...

The divisions at our church’s denominational conference mirrored the divisions in my own household. I saw good people on both sides of contentious issues. A few days after the conference, I...

At times, when I look at my schedule for the weeks ahead, I wonder how I can possibly fit everything in. At other times I worry about how I will manage...