This time I didn't need stitches
Last summer, while I was dropping off my daughter at my mom’s, I caught my ankle on the bottom edge of the screen door. The pain was severe, but without looking at the wound, I silently and forcefu...
The real mistake was lying about it
I was faced with an ethical dilemma: is honesty always the best policy? And this one had a particularly personal twist: should I lie to protect my husband's job?My husband Rob and I had been workin...
Prayer for the missing
People go missing every day—in Australia, about 30,000 adults and children every year. Sadly, some are never found—like Daniel, a 15-year-old Queensland boy who, in 2003, entered a stranger’s car a...
Feeling safe in Cairo
Note: this article was written following the April 7, 2005 terrorist bombing in the Khan al-Khalili district of Cairo, in which four people died.My husband and I are American and have lived in Cair...
Spiritual thoughts lead to health
My kids were quickly recovering from flulike symptoms—and then I started feeling bad, too. One evening, I was nauseated and couldn’t keep my food down. Between trips to the bathroom, I managed to p...
Changing my career without changing my job
I joined the police force because I thought it would offer me opportunities to do good in our community. And it did. But as I prayed about a family problem one afternoon, I saw that what I'd done s...
A simple (but golden) rule
When I was in grade school, my family moved from an old house into a brand-new one. We were all very excited. The new house was modest, yet charming. But the day after the boxes, furniture and othe...
Walking: an exercise with Mind rather than of the body
I love to walk. When I’m at work, I usually eat lunch in 15 minutes and spend the rest of my lunch break walking. On Saturdays, I take a half-hour walk early in the morning. I like to think of walk...
How Christ comes to us
I do not care if Christ comes Through e-mail, Phone calls or letters rare;Just so I receive the cure. Arriving in whatever form; Its touch, I know,Will soon transform. I care not how Christ comes...
My prayer for Darfur needed to be more effective
After Rwanda, many people vowed they’d never let such genocide happen again. But people have said that before, and today conditions in Darfur are much the same as they were in Rwanda—and in other c...