My father lay dying. In a sweat-soaked bed in the emergency room of a Brooklyn, New York, hospital, he lay gasping for air desperately trying not to panic as his heart beat erratically. As I watched my father's life seemingly ebb away due to chronic heart stress, strands of a familiar hymn floated through my clinched teeth. Tasting the salty tears...

It was 1994 when I blew it. I disappointed my friend and missed a precious moment given from God. A window of opportunity had opened and I pulled down the shade! My close friend, Quanita, and I had been chatting on the phone for years as she lived in Mississippi and I in Tennessee. We had not let the many miles between us interfere with our relationship. ...

There was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things "in order," she contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service, what scriptures she would like read,...

"Who is she?" The question seemed loud enough for everyone in the entire ballroom to hear. Two women sitting at the table near us carried on a conversation and a critique of all the participants in the annual celebrity golf classic and concert held in Lexington, Kentucky. "She's obviously not that important, because her picture's not even in...

Ever since I was a child, I have suffered from asthma. Fortunately, in my childhood, I responded well to medication. The intensity and frequency of the attacks, however, grew in severity during my teenage years and I was treated with antibiotics in addition to daily doses of asthma tablets and inhalers. The months May, June and July of this year...

"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 my dad's lips. And I never heard a single; "I love you." Years...

There are about 2,930 names in the Bible, but only about a hundred of them finished well. Canadian Judy Rae wants to finish well. "Heaven is looking better every day," she said, her personality still shining through brightly, in spite of the cancer. The disease has now reached her brain, both in the anterior and frontal lobes. "Although she...