By April Perry

Worshiping as a family at church each Sunday is one of my top priorities, but getting ready for church is often much harder than I anticipate. This experience I had one Sunday, as I was driving my children to church, taught me that the teaching in our family isn’t confined to formal settings.

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By Garrett Pace

Through the Apostle Paul, the commandment was given anciently: “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thes. 5:18).

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By Annalisa Hall

Two stories. . .

Story one: She was crying. She was whining. She’d been changed, fed, and cuddled. But now it was time to get into the car and go to Aunt Emily’s house for dinner.

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By Ken Craig

Whenever I consider the abundance of blessings in my life, I always have my Top 5. I think most people do. And generally, the list includes such themes as faith, family, friends, and health. As I said, I’m no exception to this. If there were nothing else good in my life, I would maintain the greatest level of gratitude and graciousness because of these most foundational and fundamental blessings. My convictions of who I am , where I came from, and where I am going – and who I get to go there with – create the symbolic north star in my life.

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By Anne Bradshaw

Since the age of ten, I’ve had a fondness for walking around cemeteries, gazing at the great variety of headstones, and wondering how the dead people might have looked, talked, and lived when alive. Family and school friends thought I was odd, and I spent my days with the dead on my own. I couldn’t convince anyone there was nothing to be scared about and that a graveyard was a peaceful place. I guess they’d heard too many ghost stories.

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