Before going to the field, I used to watch skin divers from the beach in Southern California. Some could stay down mere seconds before coming up for air, and others (my husband among them) would stay down a full two minutes without resurfacing, with my fears mounting as the...
Before I had my first child, I dreaded going to baby showers and hearing the various war stories of childbirth. It couldn’t be as painful as they described. Why are women still enduring this torture in the 20th century if it is so horrible? Of course I was the...
I felt like I was on top of the world. I had never been closer to God. In my devotional and prayer times I was having a conversation with my best friend Jesus. The Spirit of God was working in my life, directing me. It was during this phase...
In a recent film, Helen Hunt plays a waitress who is annoyed with a customer, a man who cuts her down, is sarcastic, and is generally unkind. At one point she says to him, ‘I don’t want to be around you anymore. You make me not like me.’ My...
