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A Moment of Clarity
/Lisa had no idea how she got there. She sat up and took in her surroundings. She was bed, in a bedroom, with morning sunlight spilling in through the gaps in the curtains. A man in his thirties entered the …
By Chris Platt
Read MoreRequiem For Grief
/Most people are uncomfortable…
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… taken too soon. So young and so much life left to live.
But God knows so much more than we do; and His …
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreAltering Our Attention
/Death will come soon …
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Why do we dwell on death?
Should we not concentrate on life?
Loss is part of our everyday …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreFound in the Wreckage
/One ticket, last red-eye.
“I'll take what she's drinking,”
I say of the redhead ahead.
Glass in hand…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreNever a Blank Slate
/Children are created with…
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Children are not blank slates.
Their chromosomes are half from each mate.
When they form in their mothers…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreSacrifice
/Christianity is fair game for criticism…
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Many of us feel overwhelmed when we consider how to follow Christ. We're all in for His love and grace; it's the self-denial none of us likes. But there is purpose in the denial of self, it isn't just hardship without cause. For every time we deny…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreThe Invisible Thread
/Are we born with a blank slate
or shaped by genetics
perhaps both braided together
make us who we…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreLove Made of Wax
/No matter how bad things…
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Our love, made of wax, dwindled the longer it lived
like an echo, i disappeared when ignored
your promises kept coming but never …
By Benjamin Nambu
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