“Mom, I’m sick and need to go to the hospital.” Our twenty-year-old son, Bret, is in Shanghai, China for eight weeks, earning college credit for an international business internship. This is never the call you want to receive. What do you do when you’re child is sick enough to go to the hospital and he…
“You’re so beautiful.” There were two other people in the room and the woman wasn’t speaking to me. My first thought was: What does that make me? I’ve been insecure about my looks all my life. In my mind, I’m still the pudgy little elementary school girl with glasses. So when someone tells another in…
Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Maybe that is how you feel today, but as Christians, God often calls us into deep waters where only He can guide us. Deep waters are where miracles happen. God does his best work when the problems of life are at flood stage. Before the Israelites could make it to…
When I was a little girl, I longed to see my earthly father, who died two months before I was born. I knew it wasn’t possible, but I still dreamed about meeting him one day. I can remember being awestruck the first time I watched the Rogers and Hammerstein musical Carousel on television. It’s a…
The growth on my face was expanding and my dermatologist appointment was still a few weeks away. This bump was downright ugly and it was getting increasingly difficult to cover it with my hair. It also didn’t look like any other benign growth that had appeared on my fair skin. I tried to not worry,…