When we’re at the top of our game, the world’s our oyster. We’re living the high life, and there’s no mountain we can’t see over.
We’re coming up roses, and the jackpot’s ours to ...
Our bodies have a way of telling us something’s wrong.
Pain is our friend, although when it washes over us, it’s hard to tell. Still, if we weren’t aware of our physical problems, we’d go on ...
An educator in a small town just west of Fort Worth, Texas, had worked hard to improve her family’s fortunes. In 2013, after years of extra university work, she accepted an administrative position ...
The Christian music group Kutless put out a well-received song in 2012. One section of the lyrics references the times our healing doesn’t come from God. It’s all about having faith in our Lord ...
We all need a place of healing. The question is how to find it.
Joni Eareckson Tada has one of the most amazing stories of anyone out there today. At 17 she was an amazingly adept young woman who ...
Read more: Five Steps of Bethesda
Our physical bodies are resilient. We pound them on the football field, smack them in the boxing ring, and fly off ramps on skateboards. Then we get up and walk away. It’s only as we come to terms ...
Read more: Healing Our Spiritual Wounds
What do we really want from God? We know the right answers. A good family, health, adequate finances, and of course, eternal life spent with God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy ...
Read more: Throwing Away God’s Diamonds
There is not much that looks cuter than a helpless newborn kitten. It hobbles around, shaky on its weak legs, meowing plaintively, and we want to pick it up and cuddle it in our ...
Read more: The Kitten’s Cry
A broken bone is one of the most devastating injuries we can receive. The pain is incredible, the recovery is interminable, and the aftermath is less than idyllic. We suffer through thunderstorms and ...
Read more: Broken Bones Restored
Spit and polish refers to taking something that is well used and making it new again.
In military vernacular it means to give attention to detail; to look neat and orderly; to work in precision with ...
Read more: Spit and Polish
A massage might make for a relaxing moment after a stressful day, but add hot stones to the mix, and we feel like we have enjoyed a few minutes of heaven while still right here on ...
Read more: The Cleansing Stone
In 2011 a Rottweiler named Leslie fell in a 20 foot dry well. It was a week before she was found and safely pulled out.
Leslie’s story goes further. A year earlier, she had been rescued from being ...
Read more: The Dog in the Well
What can desperation bring us to do? Our recent ancestors cured coughs with the slimy essence of snails. Icepicks were inserted through eye sockets into people’s brains, hoping to calm the confused ...
Read more: When We’re Desperate for a Cure
