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God Asks Us to Love Our Neighbors—Even When it’s Not Convenient

“Hi! How are you?” I smiled with my usual response. “Good. How are you?” She buzzed past me, threw some bananas in her cart,…

The week after Thanksgiving, a mom drove my car home for me. Not my mom. Another mom who had never met me or my family. That didn’t matter though.…

A new year is upon us and I can almost smell the possibility. The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day leaves me stumbling around in a…

Through my early twenties, I worked in customer service as a gas station clerk and a waitress, and let me just say one thing. The customer is NOT…

There is something about the wonder of Christmas through the eyes of a child. The way they stand in awe of a brightly-lit Christmas tree; how they…

Dana Dirkes’ life was rocked in July when she was very quickly and surprisingly diagnosed with Large B Cell Lymphoma after a routine doctor’s…

Sometimes, it just needs to be said; the frustration, the anger, the embarrassment needs to be put into words. Chances are, we’ve all dealt with…

School is so exciting to you right now, little one. You are unsure about what is to come but the unknown allows you to imagine a world that is fun…

I saw the look on Adam’s face as we turned the corner, and braced myself for the inevitable three-year-old’s howl. But it never…

The joyful anticipation of the beginning of summer break became tainted with disappointment as we walked home from school that day. My fifth grade…