Norm* seemed like such a nice guy when Kay dated him. He had a great sense of humor and they laughed a lot. They went to church together, and he professed to be a Christian. Little did Kay know how alcohol would plunge both of them into an indescribable Hades! They married when Kay was 18. Norm was affectionate and attentive. He even taught a...

I am a Native North American woman. I was abandoned at the age of four, with five other siblings, in a hotel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. My parents were on a drinking spree. They were alcoholics and had left my oldest brother, who was seven years old, to care for us. The police and the welfare people stepped in and apprehended us to permanent...

Once upon a time, there was a teenage girl and boy who met in high school and fell madly in love. Both were "good" kids who got high grades, listened to their parents, went to church, were involved in school and church activities and didn't smoke, drink or do drugs. The end of a fairytale But she had an alcoholic father who often became verbally...

What transforms a broken heart of stone into a soft heart of compassion? Is it the mountaintop experiences of joy and laughter, or is it life's dark valley times of pain and sorrow? After reflecting on my life and studying the lives of people in the Bible, I would have to answer that compassion is formed in the dark valley times. Times when the...