The story last week about the young Asian couple’s first year in America to attend college got a lot of response from my readers. Emails and blog comments all mentioned the encouragement that story was. This week is the beginning of the back story of that young couple and how they entered our lives. “I’m just…
Category: Inspiration
Angel Help
Today we returned home from a week-long trip to visit one of our dear daughters a long distance away. An added benefit to our visits with our daughter and her husband and four children is that we spend nights with lifelong friends who live in our daughter’s vicinity. As we were sitting at their table in their…
Toward Dawn
I wonder why we celebrate All Hallows Eve, but forget about All Hallows Day, also known as All Saints Day? Many have difficulty believing in God, but few have trouble admitting there is evil. No one can deny the darkness, the death, the war, the destruction, the loss in the world and in our personal…
My Compassionate Friend
Today I asked a long time friend of mine what it was like working at a Pregnancy Resource Center for seventeen years. In answer, she shared this story: A young woman had had a positive pregnancy test and had come in for a first-trimester ultrasound. My friend, a nurse trained in limited ultrasound, took the…
Ashes
A few days ago Cuz called. (My affectionate term for my cousin D.) “Did you know that Cousin G’s house burned to the ground?” He had already let us know a few days prior that Cousin G and her husband had evacuated after a warning from a helicopter that an out-of-control Oregon wildfire was quickly…