When my daughter adopted a 13-year-old girl out of the foster care system, I knew it would be beyond difficult! But I certainly had no concept of the ongoing problems that would surface! Because she had been in a number of foster care...
My first two trips to the Holy Land are what I would call Israel 101. You follow Jesus’s life through Galilee from birth and throughout His ministry and then up to Jerusalem to walk through His last week before the Crucifixion and...
I started experiencing pain and abnormal bleeding a year ago. Through months of diagnostics, at least six uterine fibroids were found, one causing many issues including heavy and sporadic hemorrhaging. I was given three surgical options --...
We are inundated with alerts daily. The microwave makes noise when the muffin has been heated. The clothes dryer beeps when clothes are dry. The phone rings with an incoming call or a text message. God also loves to send us subtle...
Last fall my granddaughter, a junior in high school in Michigan, learned of a state program named Michigan Youth Challenge that was very appealing to her. It is a 19-week intensive program, much like Army Boot Camp, for males and females...
Last Friday evening, my husband and I were about to put our daughters to bed when I decided to give our two 7-month-old brown French bulldog puppies each a new Nylabone. They started excitedly chewing on them. When I checked in a few minutes to...
After our second daughter was born, we, as a couple, felt a desire to begin attending church so that our two young girls would have the opportunity to learn about Jesus. Because our home is located quite close to The Fellowship, we drove...
A strangled sob interrupted my concentration. Recently graduated from a southern university, I sat at my desk in New York City that November morning struggling with the layout of our company’s weekly newsletter. Startled, I swiveled...
Only a gracious God can orchestrate a story like mine. Before I was even conceived, God already knew my story and what I would need. The story begins in 2006 when out of nowhere, I started having debilitating headaches. My doctor...
I was born in the Philippines. Shortly after, my father made his way to the United States, joined the Navy, and our family moved to Japan. Because we relocated innumerable times, it was difficult to develop relationships. Socially, I was...
