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Re-learning the Promises of God

Are you walking the road of infertility or miscarriage? Share the journey with an online mentor. I am a mother,  but I don’t have a child to hug. I can’t brag about my baby’s first steps, the first day of school or graduation.  I have no photographs.  But I am a mother.  My children are in heaven. After only two months of “trying”... >Full Story

  • Header Image Coping with Your Husband’s Job Loss

    My cell phone rang on Monday morning while I was working at a client’s office. “Lori, can you meet me at home? I’ve just been let go from my job.” I packed up and got in the car and started to drive, my heart pounding, my mind racing…then the tears started, and I began to pray. Just the previous Sunday afternoon, Del and I had been talking... >more

  • Header Image Some Things We Keep

    I grew up in the fifties with practical parents – a mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it. A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones. Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends... >more

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The Little Yellow Scoop

She loved plants. Everywhere you looked there were plants. Her tiny apartment was literally cluttered with plants. She liked to see things grow. She liked and needed to nurture. She lived alone, and plants, to some extent, satisfied that longing and desire. With no husband to care for, and her children long since grown and busy with their [...] Read More >

Cancer: A Different Kind of Survivor’s Story

On May 25, 2001, Doug Rae of North Vancouver, British Columbia lost his wife Judy to cancer when she was only 61-years-old. What follows is an interview that occurred just over one year later. Hopefully it will provide a point of contact and inspiration to readers who are currently going through similar circumstances. Kevin: Describe your [...] Read More >

Parent-Care Crisis

One night I had an unusual dream. “Lord,” I asked, “what is this dream telling me?” The answer came into my mind: my father would die, my mother would run out under heavy dark clouds – and her neighbors would comfort her. The Lord gave me the reason for the prayer too: I was to [...] Read More >

The Light Inside Mrs. Watt

Ailie Watt loved teaching young children how to read. Although she taught English and Art at Trinity Western University in the 1970s, she still remained committed to ushering five-year-olds into the world of literacy at a local elementary school. For more than a decade she taught both kindergarten and university students, daily seeing both ends of the [...] Read More >

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