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Venia

In 2007, mentally disturbed college student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and wounded many others before turning the gun on himself. How could the parents of freshman Mary Karen Read, one of those killed in the attack, find the strength to forgive the killer? The answer may rest in Mary's final journal entry before her death. Where do you find...

As I write this post, nearly half of the trapped Chilean miners have been rescued. The thirty-three miners were trapped on August 5th 2010 when the main ramp into the San Jose mine in northern Chile collapsed. CNN showed live video of the rescue and a live tracker on their front page displaying the number of people rescued so far. Similarly, in...

Have you ever wished you were someone else? I did! I was raised in a great family with seven brothers and sisters. My parents were missionaries in Africa for many years and I naturally had a lot of knowledge about God and Christianity. At a young age, I decided to begin a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. An unsure self-esteem As...

The plane was three hours into its international flight when the pilot came on the intercom with the following announcement: “Ladies and gentlemen, don’t be alarmed, but I have some bad news as well as some good news for you. The bad news is that our navigational equipment is malfunctioning and we have no way of knowing where we are. The...

Note: Due to his request, the person’s name who told us his life story has been withheld. There must be more to life than to be born and then to die. I always believed that, but never knew really what I was missing, so how could I search for it? I was born and grew up in the Middle East. I occasionally went to church but I didn’t really...

On February 13, 2007 my life took a drastic change. I was estranged from my husband.  I lived in my parents' home to help my mother take care of my elderly grandparents.   They were 79 and 80 years old with one suffering with late stage Alzheimer’s. We also ran our photography/video business out of our own home. On that February day in...

I went through life by always having to be in control; being in charge. I was the disciplinarian at home and was the one who did all the "grounding". When it came to my job, I'd be the one to organize and get social events happening. If there was a party or a function to plan - get Donna Leah to do it. Even now, people will still say, "Well Donna...