Christmas accentuates depression, grief, broken relationships, discontentment, jealousy, shattered families. Even those whose lives exude joy and peace experience unexpected sadness...

The beautiful young woman's strained voice revealed the deep pain she was trying to minimize. Her mother died when she was very young, her father remarried and the step-mother fit the Cinderella stereotype.

Before the lights in my own life went out, God prepared me for the darkness by introducing me to women whose faith gripped my own soul and helped stir up a hunger to know and love Jesus no matter what.  Joni Eareckson Tada is one of those women…

"I'm so overwhelmed!" In the past week I've heard this statement from three different young moms. Their frustrated cries reminded me of a particular catch up day that ended with a similar cry and real tears, "I give up!"…