The worship theme for the day was "Joy!" and a little girl in the row ahead of us showed us what joy looks like. She looked much like the girl in the photo as she swayed back and forth in her polka ...

Let me pass on a lesson I learned along the way--and isn't that the way we all learn? I'm making progress because awhile back a new friend said, "You always wear the hint of a smile. What's your ...

Time to count up all the reasons we have to be thankful. Even now. Even though. Even if our personal story is full of pain. Like one young man I read about. I only have a few sentences of fact about ...

It's that time again. Time to think and to thank Time to count up all the reasons we have to be thankful. Even now. Even though. Even if our personal story is full of pain. Like one young man I read ...

Like one young man I read about. I only have a few sentences of fact about his brief encounter with a friend, but here's how I imagine it have gone. "Joel" suffered a freak accident that shattered his ...