I was feeling my age that morning as I limped from the parking lot up to the Physical Therapy Building.I was pushing fifty. I was crippled and I was feeling like a failure. Thankfully, I was happily married. However, health problems had cut short my dreams of...
Thank God for prayers unanswered prayers! Well, I thank God for prayers He did not answer according to what I wanted.Last year was a particularly challenging year for my wife and I, but God saw us through. We were grateful for all the things we were able to accomplish...
One of Canada's most famous physicians was Dr. William Osler. Many stories are told of Dr. Osler, but one of the most revealing comes from World War I.Friends recalled the day when he was working in one of Britain's military hospitals during the war. He was called out...
Our cat, Sammy, had to go to the groomer's a couple of weeks ago. We put it off as long as we could. He was starting to look like a rug-with fringe. But Sammy absolutely hates to go to the groomers'. They don't particularly love to see him coming either. After...
How do you measure the goodness of God? Is it only in perfect answers to our prayers? Is it only when we are so focused on perfection that nothing less will do? Or is it in finding something worth holding on to when the whole world seems to be falling in a deep...
It was snowing in the cold Pennsylvania pre-dawn as Caryl Baum's limousine made its way to the airport for her flight. She was going to her goddaughter Kelly's funeral in Tallahassee. The girl, whose heart had unexpectedly stopped after jogging, had been only 22, and...
Regina (Regi) Langworthy was a teen-age bride, and a mother by her eighteenth birthday. At 19, she had already divorced, and by age 21, she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer. "What a start on life!" She says. Regi loved children and had wanted more. But it was...