Elisabeth Adams 7 Minute Read Why do I love reading love stories that really happened? Is it the part of me that enjoys real butter, homemade bread, chicken soup from scratch . . . or the fact that a little suffering creates a great big desire for authenticity? Most of all, I think it’s the fact that true stories show…
Gretchen Louise 11 Minute Read “‘You are loved with an everlasting love,’ that’s what the Bible says, ‘and underneath are the everlasting arms.’” If you, like me, grew up listening to “Gateway to Joy” on the radio every morning, you knew the next line was going to be, “This is your friend Elisabeth Elliot.” That soft, deep voice would proceed…
Christy Fitzwater 5 Minute Read You wouldn’t mind going to the dump with us, if you could see the views. On the left, we pass McWenneger Slough, which almost always has an aluminum fishing boat on it. The highway makes a sweeping curve to the right, before you feel like you’re going to run straight into the Rockies. Fields of…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I was born in 1992. I wasn’t a teenager until 2005, which means I narrowly missed the biggest “purity” era. I never attended a conference surrounding the topic of abstinence, made a vow in front of my youth group or was awarded a piece of jewelry symbolic of my commitment. My parents did things the…
Jenni Marie 4 Minute Read My Mom has cancer. My friend lost her full-term baby. My cousin has a terminal illness. How many times have you faced your own similarly jarring realities and been forced to acknowledge the fallenness of this world? Everyone has a story of unfairness, an ache, an injustice; mine is just an example of the pain…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read A couple planned their Charleston wedding for the weekend the hurricane came. When the groomsmen, the photographer, and the officiant had no way to make it onto the peninsula, the bride pleaded on a reporter’s borrowed mic for someone to come and marry them. A photography student and a minister were able to answer her plea….
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read I clung to the rock, fingers aching, legs trembling. Sweat trickled into my eyes and down my back. “I can’t do this.” “Yes, you can,” came the calm, reassuring voice of my husband. “Put your left foot a little higher; there’s a good foothold just past that ridge.” “I can’t reach that far. I can’t…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read I answered the phone to hear my mother say, “Everything is fine.” I said the first thing that came to mind. “I hate when you start phone calls that way.” The truth was, I knew everything was not fine because she had called me. It was a normal Wednesday where we were both at work, at…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “What may look to me like Plan B or Plan Z was Plan A all along.” -Elisabeth Elliot, Be Still My Soul When people ask me what I’m planning on doing this summer, I tell them one thing: hold Simeon. Simeon is my nephew, and he’s more-than-likely going to be born next month. The past several months…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read All I needed was to find the post office. I took note of my supervisor’s directions, but misheard which branch he was directing me to. When I mentioned to a friend where I was going, she gave me a different set of directions (because, obviously, I had given her the wrong branch name). Insert dilemma. Whose advice…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read Though I took driver’s ed when I was sixteen, I didn’t actually start driving until I was eighteen. By the time I was nineteen, I was driving myself to work and to social events, but every time I got behind the wheel, I was a wreck. I hate driving, I told people. But that wasn’t…
Callie Mitchell 5 Minute Read We could hear the engine from our driveway. The big yellow school bus was headed towards our house. I remember standing there, watching it come closer. Though we had talked through getting on the bus many times, fear was taking over. I don’t want to do this! It stopped. My mom and dad were both…
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