My kitchen table was covered with papers. It was the end of the month and I was trying to get all of my paperwork done and taken to the office on time. I sat down in a chair, picked up my pen, and started writing on the first page. Just then a flash of motion caught...
One of my neighbors used to have a beautiful tree in her front yard. Her Dad had planted it for her when it was nothing more than a twig and for years it seemed to barely grow at all. Yet, after a time it started to shoot towards the sky with amazing speed. Soon it...
This week I met a ten-year old girl who expressed her goal in life in no uncertain terms: "I want to be a star."I was pretty sure she didn't mean that she wanted to become a celestial body shining through the night. No, she wanted people to notice her.As these ideas...
My old college dorm room was very Spartan by today’s standards. It had no computer, no cell phone, and no television. The furniture was two plain desks, two hard desk chairs, and two lumpy bunk beds. The heater never kept the room warm enough in the Winter either. I...
The Summer of my eleventh year was a wonderful time of joy and innocence. My days were spent riding my bike, walking in the bright green woods around my home, swimming in the crystal clear river that ran by my house, playing in fields full of wild flowers, and looking...
We had just left our car in the parking lot at Rimrock Overlook, in the Allegany National Forest in Pennsylvania, and were heading down to the lookout for a spectacular view. We then planned to descend the stairs from the lookout to the bottom of the lookout rock to...
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." (John 13:34, NIV2)Easter is all about love. Jesus showed His genuine love for us by willingly dying on our behalf on a lonely, abandoned cross. However love cannot be...
