ANGEL AT MIDNIGHT Julie’s note: This first published with Jasmine’s Place One year while waiting to move into our own home, we rented an older house in town. It had spacious rooms and our bedroom was at the front of the house and each of the children’s was near the back. As many older…
I’m Thankful for God’s Timing For the last six years, November has been a month of true thanksgiving in my family. Sure, we always did the Thanksgiving thing – up to and including some activities that made me cringe as a teenager with my mom trying to encourage us to share the things we…
This year I am most thankful for my health. It was in January 2013 that I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Nephrodic Syndrome and I thought I was going to be ill for the rest of my life. Here I am, ten months later with my recent lab work showing that all my kidney levels are…
Angels with Flashlights Submitted by Kathy Dippolito, in loving memory of Shelly We’d trained for months and flown in from across the country. Some of us were sisters, some of us were strangers. Some had run marathons, some had never run a “real” race before. But there we were, excited and anxious to start…
I Just Couldn’t Do It Crippling, painful, and terminal conditions swoop down on people unawares. My own immediate family has fallen victim repeatedly, but I have remained healthy. Self-absorbed parents abandon their responsibilities, and families disintegrate into bitterness. Instead of embracing that example, my children go out of their way to stay in…
I’m thankful that, when I was terribly burned out with the private practice of medicine, God gave me an unexpected opportunity to take the position of professor at a prestigious medical center, where I was privileged to serve for 10 more years. I’m thankful that, after my wife of 40 years died suddenly, God put…