August was a very difficult month because during the first week, I came down with the Covid Delta variant -- even though I had been fully vaccinated. As a 65-year-old woman, I know that every day I spend on this earth is in the hands of my...
As a worker in the health care industry, I am well aware of how important it is for women to have mammograms. These are X-ray pictures of each breast to detect early signs of cancer. Mammograms are certainly not a pleasant experience...
Just a few weeks ago, my family moved from Katy to Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. Having lived in Durham, NC, before, we had always visited this area in hopes to live there one day. Needless to say, we were very excited about the move...
Around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, August 18, I got a call saying that my husband, 56, had been in a car accident on his way to work, and I needed to get to the hospital immediately. I phoned my sister in Houston to alert friends in our Zoom...
Fifteen years ago, while attending college, I met a girl who later became my best friend. She was very friendly and quite popular. Our friendship grew and we were always there for each other. She was in an emotionally abusive relationship at that...
When I was a girl four decades ago attending parochial school, we began each day with this prayer: “I offer You my prayers, works, and sufferings of this day.” I have continued to lift up this prayer throughout my...
On a Saturday afternoon in September, we learned belatedly of the death of my husband’s cousin. The funeral was going to be on Monday at 11 a.m. in West Texas. On the spur of the moment, we made plans to attend. He and my...
Shortly after giving birth to our son, I got diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, an Inflammatory Bowel Disease that causes ulcerations in the lining of the colon. This leads to severe pain, blood in stool, diarrhea, fever, malnourishment, and...
Though we would prefer immediate, positive answers to our prayers during the trials and times of crisis in this life, God does not always respond as we wish. But He has promised to never leave or forsake us, and even in the worst of...
I was born in Colombia, South America, and moved to the United States in 1991. The middle child in our family, I was very close to my mother growing up and we made many wonderful memories together! All my life, I have received great...
