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...

I'd like to tell you that what you’re about to read is really important and is going to impact your life. The truth is, I'm probably not going to tell you anything you haven't heard before, but let me encourage you to read it anyway. Raised in a Christian home I was raised on a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley along with six sisters and one...

When he was fifteen, Roger Sabourin of Medicine Hat, Alberta, went through one of the worst experiences imaginable for a young teen: sexual abuse at the hands of a clergy member. Devastated by the experience but fearing what would happen if he went public with the crime, Roger chose to remain silent, keeping his hurt and grief to himself for the...

I was born in Mullingar and I'm the eldest of four children. Our parents were good Catholics who believed in the power of prayer and gave us a good upbringing. By the time I received my First Holy Communion I was serious about God. In fact, I had a spiritual experience that day but there was nobody to explain it to me. Not too long afterwards...

When my mouth says "Oh no, I couldn't do that", that little voice inside me says "Maybe I could". I listen to that little voice. "BREAST CANCER" I don't know of any two words that strike more fear in a woman's heart than those. I know they did mine. And they are two words that were to change my life forever. As I look back to that time,...

Out of habit, I felt for the light switch in our bathroom, I flipped it on, but… the darkness remained. My body shook with terror. Holding on to the cold and slick counter top, I looked toward the mirror and saw a dreary gray of nothing. In desperation, I felt the urge to scratch through the glass into the darkness to find even a slight glimpse...

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 particular chapter. However, I am now thankful for it as I see the good...