Absence can be so loud.But God hears. by Bukhtawer Shabab The silence descends upon a home when a person is absent. The kind that weighs heavily on your chest like an immovable burden, rather than just ringing in your ears. Three weeks had passed since my daughter Emily’s funeral. She was seven years old. She […]

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How to do battle with the forces of darkness. by Nathanael Reed We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Unknown “Afraid of the light”? What a puzzling accusation. In fact, it seems rather counterintuitive to think […]

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by Santiago Chavez The polite, well-dressed woman showed us photographs on her mobile phone of a famous South Korean pop music singer, comparing her beauty to our baby daughter’s. I have always thought our daughter had her mother’s great looks, but I was still amused by the lady’s star-struck insistence that briefly interrupted our dinner […]

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by Ronald Rousseau When I was about eight years old and living in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a friend of the family drove up to the front of our home in his Cherokee truck. Both he and the truck were covered in a thick layer of dust. He looked as though he had ridden on the truck’s […]

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Learning to carry our cross. by Ruhama Assefa Sometimes we sit silently, unsure of how to handle life. Bills, grades, marriage, pressure. We all have our share of troubles. As Christians, we turn to our heavenly Father in prayer, but there are moments when words simply don’t suffice. Instead, tears flow. Yet even then, we […]

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Becoming faithful to Christ — and staying that way. by Stephen R. Clark Once upon a time, “hi-fi” was a big deal. Telling your friends, “I got a cool hi-fi for my birthday!” was an impressive boast and might have earned you a high five. The term was a contraction of the term high fidelity. […]

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by Allison Wilson Lee I dropped a cube of ice from my grandparents’ freezer into the cup of water and handed it to my cousin. Juliet took a sip and then looked up at me with confusion. “I can’t taste it,” the cute little four-year-old said. Taste what? I wondered. It was only water from […]

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Learning to do what the disciples should have done. by Sarah Schwerin My high school English teacher stood behind his desk, his steely gray eyes surveying the class. “All truth is relative,” he said. “There is no right or wrong.” As usual, most of the students nodded their heads and stared in rapt attention as […]

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by Bob Hostetler Maybe you’ve said it. I know I have: “If I had my way . . . ” Sometimes it’s prompted by dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. At other times, it has more to do with a disappointment I’ve faced or a fear I have. And most of the time (maybe […]

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Obedience and its reward. by Dr. David R. Downey If there is a concept that rises above all others in Scripture, it may be that of obedience. God constantly points to this characteristic in the people He can bless, for obedience is nothing more than observing, first, that God is sovereign and then trusting Him […]

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