About a week after my Uncle Andy died, I spoke to my mother on the phone. It was a very difficult time for her—struggling with the loss of her oldest brother, her sister-in-law was fighting breast cancer, and Mama was dealing with severe illness as well. She said something like, “I’m falling apart, Andy is gone and Doris is not doing any...

"We can't find a heartbeat. I'm sorry, your baby is gone." I couldn't believe what I was hearing - there obviously had been some crazy mistake. At first I thought they must be in the wrong room. I felt sorry for that poor woman next door – I wouldn't want to be in her shoes right now. Or maybe it was the ultrasound. These machines malfunction...

Like many other Christians, I read The One-Year Bible. Recently, while reading in Deuteronomy, I found myself becoming impatient with the Israelites. "How can they be so blind to what God wants to do for them?" It just seemed so pointless. They wandered and grumbled and complained, while all the time God waited to give them the Promised Land....