A Tangible Reminder by Mary Byers
Last year I read Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischer, creator of the Veggie Tales video series. I was interested because my children grew up on Veggie Tales. But I was also interested because somewhere along [...]

COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
by Virelle Kidder
My mother had remarkable zeal for Christmas. Weeks in advance, she would come home from teaching school and bake late into the night. I helped clean the house and decorate the tree while my older brother Roger wired the house with Christmas lights, transforming our humble red house into [...]

Life Beautiful by Margaret McSweeney
During a quiet moment after Thanksgiving, I started reading my parents’ stack of love letters that I recently found in a storage box. As a Christmas gift to you, I would like to share my father’s words to my mother written to her during Christmas 1949. [...]

Too Precious to Wear by Sarah Sundin
One Christmas when my mother was a girl, she received a string of pearls from her father. Since her parents were divorced-an unusual situation in the 1950s-she treasured the pearls as a sign of her father’s love. When he passed away her senior [...]

For Parents and Teensby Tricia Goyer, author of Generation NeXt Parenting
Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy provides a teaching moment for parents
I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz over the fact that Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of Britney and star of Disney’s Zoey 101, is pregnant at 16-years-old. For parents, Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy provides a teachable moment [...]

Dreaming in Color
IN LIVING COLOR
Do you dream in color? Or do you only think you do? Do you really dream in black and white and the memory of that Technicolor pony in a red sports car is just that — only a memory. Evaporated like an ice cube on a warm plate.
Many mornings, as [...]

How Strong Women Pray by Bonnie St. John
(excerpts)
From the Introduction:
People ask me how I got the idea for How Strong Women Pray. Actually, I was praying.
I was sitting on my living room floor in New York City praying one morning several years ago, as [...]