Holocaust survivor and forgiveness advocate, Eva Kor, tells of receiving an experimental injection at the cruel hands of Dr. Josef Mengele at the tender age of ten while imprisoned in Auschwitz. Suffering a raging fever for more than two weeks, the physicians...
I remember the first time I heard those words. It was shocking and unexpected. “Your husband has irreversible brain damage.” In 1995 my husband was in a head-on car collision. That day, our lives changed forever. Although my husband Paul was in a lot of head pain,...
I close my eyes, allowing its power to wash over me. Loose particles of sand dance up from the shoreline, pelting my feet where I’ve rolled the cuffs of my jeans to ankle height and the waves, placid earlier this morning, protest loudly. God’s presence is...
My world spun off its axis when a precious one revealed the trauma buried in his past. Pushing hard against the faith I’d clung to throughout my own embattled childhood and youth, I wrestled with God. I laid my heart bare, unflinchingly honest in my anger and...
As last year is enveloped by the unknown of 365 untouched tomorrows, images of unspoiled beauty flit through my mind. The petals of a flower unfurling beneath the sun. A freshly birthed baby’s lusty mewling as his lungs exhale for the first time. The...