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Beauty That Lasts

All I ever wanted was to be in magazines, earn lots of money and travel all over the world. The struggle to make ends meet was finally over. The world was my new playground – from Egypt to South Africa, Japan to Sweden, Switzerland to the Canary Islands – I was living my dream. I [...] Read More >

Is the Christmas Story True? Does it Still Matter Today?

The story is old and has been told well many, many times. The story of an inn, a pregnant virgin, a stable, a manger, a star and a king. It’s a story that never grows old that Someone with a very creative mind and loving heart planned thousands of years ago when things didn’t work [...] Read More >

Through Anxiety: A Path of Healing

How do we make sense of the chapters of our lives we’d rather didn’t exist? How do we re-write the table of contents when our story strays from what we had planned? There is a chapter of my life that I had no idea would ever exist for me, nor would I have ever chosen this [...] Read More >

Do You See?

“See what you have to look forward to now?” The whisper in my ear made my smile widen. It was Dec. 10th and we were on our first outing with our new baby. She was only 10 days old, but we braved the frigid Yukon winter to attend the Christmas pageant at a small mission church. I [...] Read More >

I Want my Baby Back

I wanted my life to go back to normal, but nothing could change the fact that I would always miss my baby. My baby died at only 5 weeks of gestational age. The doctor referred to him as a “blighted ovum” or a case of “failure to develop”, but he was so much more than that [...] Read More >

My Child is Different

Story told by Anita Aubuchon, written by Alli Vail My second husband and I were married on August 5, 2000 and we immediately began talking about having a baby together. Although I was 38 and had three beautiful daughters from my first marriage, I wanted to give my husband a child of his own. We named [...] Read More >

Finding the Real Me

From a young age I struggled with a lack of sexual identity. I was born on a tropical island to deliriously happy parents. My father was all man – robust, authoritative and protective, and my mother was all woman – delicate, fragile and supportive. I grew up with two older brothers who were academic wizards, while [...] Read More >

Tears from Blind Eyes

“How’s my little girl?” asked my uncle reaching out to his daughter pulling her close. She giggled and my heart drooled as I watched him give her a loving hug and a kiss. At 10 years of age I cried out in silence for a little of that tenderness. Words of endearment never slipped from [...] Read More >

The Perfect Friend

This is a story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. I was born in Belgrade, the capitol of Yugoslavia and Serbia, in an average Serbian family. As I can recall it, I had a very happy childhood. My parents (my mom and grandma, as my dad died when I was a baby) [...] Read More >

The Prodigal

I remember when my brother, Jim, left home. I came from an able, happy family, but this did not stop us from having problems. I was born in Kisumu, the third largest town in Kenya. We were a close family of eight children–three brothers and five sisters–of which I am the youngest. When I was about 11 [...] Read More >

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