It was less than seven weeks until the baby was due, and there was still so much to be done. The nursery wasn’t finished; the house was still disheveled from rearranging to make room for the baby, and there were several essentials we needed to purchase. I thought...
Giving sight to the blind was not something Samantha Chaney thought she would be doing that summer. She and her husband, Mather, live in a modest home with their two young daughters. Together they make a modest income. They don’t travel the world or donate large sums...
I once received a message from Marie asking my advice on whether she should marry her boyfriend. He wanted to get engaged, but she still had reservations. And it’s no wonder. His problems were egregious, indeed. First, Marie was a Christian, and her boyfriend was not....
Last summer I bought a medium-sized potted bush to decorate my back porch. As autumn drew to a close, bringing with it the winter chill, I knew I should have sheltered it in some way. But I procrastinated too long, and later I watched it freeze in the chill of...
Being that my husband and I were both first-born, type-A personalities, there was little doubt in our minds regarding whether or not we would find out the gender of our first baby. We most definitely wanted to know, not just because it made for easy decorating, but...
