The other day, I read a Christian article. The author said, "To my great distress, I sometimes hear people say, in their zeal for fervency and efficacy in prayer, that we should never qualify our prayer requests if it be Your will. Some will even say, to attach those words--those conditional terms--to our prayers is [...]
My mom died several years ago. An industrious woman, she always went out of her way to show us kids that she loved us. Unfortunately, however, she developed dementia, and although she still remembered us kids, she was just a shell of the person I knew. I remember calling her at the nursing home where [...]
"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." --Psalm 90:12 (NIV) Back in 2019, I was in and out of the hospital due to a severe eye infection. Ultimately my entire right eye, socket, orbit and both the top and bottom eyelids were removed. In total, I spent a [...]
"A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need." --Proverbs 17:17 (NLT) "It would be really nice to talk to a human," I said to my wife as I hung up the phone. I had just endured a maze of recordings, in order to ask a live person [...]
The idea of seeing my aunt again was bittersweet, but I knew I didn't have much time to play with. I hadn't seen her since I was a child, and now she lived in a group home, suffering with dementia. At least I knew from short conversations on the phone that she remembered me, and [...]
"Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him." --Isaiah 36:6 (NIV) Gregory S. Larsen found himself in Norfolk Circuit Court on claims that his crutches allegeedly broke. [...]