The vibrance of a love lived should not end with death.

Every relationship has its moments of despair.  "Should I ignore this latest stupidity or walk away?" Sometimes life answers the question for you.

We can indeed be humbled in this life.

A troubled woman finds comfort unexpectedly--in the very source of her pain.

The Inner Thrill of Spring Arrival

Mary's chance encounter at the supermarket changes her life, though not exactly as she expects--or hopes.

I catch glimpses of their great machines through the leaves:  yellow flashes of great claws, blistered with mud.

This is a love story based on my grandparents.

A change in the day's plans causes a mother and her young daughter to shift perspective...perhaps for the better.

There wasn't anything here, nothing of value anyway. Some rusting tools, rotting wood, forgotten memories. Wait, though, something was coming back to me, something my grandmother used to say: "Just because you can't see the value in something, doesn't mean it doesn't have value at all."

Creation is filled with allegory, and this amazing worm is no different.

When Roman soldier Martin divided his cloak with a beggar on a cold winter's day, he could not have foreseen how that scrap of cloth would change the lives of those who followed him...

Gemma Knowells is initially disappointed in her inheritance from Grandma: a box of letters.  She soon discovers that lessons from the past may be the key to success in her future.

Poem for son

When Jonathan arrived in Kenya he expected to meet his sister for a month of escapist traveling around East Africa. What he didn't know was that his sister would not be there to meet him, and in just a few day he would become an accidental missionary.

Two covert soldiers come into a Pakistani camp to rescue kidnapped missionaries, to find only one alive. Does he even want to leave his captors? Why would he want to stay? Find out what this prisoner considers more important than his life.

Virtue turns to vice in our own hands.

Nettie Yoder stood in the dusty street of Laws, California waiting for Jake Spiral. The tender letters he wrote to her in Boston touched her heart but still, Laws was a distance to come for marriage to a man she'd never seen. No matter the outcome though, she could not go back to Boston.

This life and the search for flashes

"I had escaped the clutches of one god, only to fall captive to another..."

Hope can arrive in your last moments alive, but will it save you?

Harry has a choice to make.  On one side of him lies an end to everything he knows; on the other, uncertainty, possible failure, but life nonetheless.

Hope can give you a reason. Or it can be the last thing you ever see.

Dandelion Wishes offers a glimpse into the tender joy of a young girl.

In the hour before nightfall, Aleida feeds her hummingbirds and remembers days long past.

Haruah sets new focus for 2010.

You aren't found unless you want to be found. Kathy plans to hide all day and win the game... if you can call it "winning."

Dear God,
I'm lonely.

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