Widow’s Anniversary by Minister Diane L. Harris
Five years ago this morning, I hurried to the master bedroom of my first floor unit at Starlight Apartments in Nashville, Tennessee. One last teardrop rolled down my husband’s cheek. Did it mean a release of pain or an intake of joy over a [...]

Author and poet Vanessa Richardson shares her testimony about being diagnosed with a rare disesase, Catamenial Pneumothorax. Resources are included after the article.
The year: 1999 – Age: 24 – Am I forsaken?
“Ms. Richardson?”
My name being hailed pulled me from my quiet appraisal of the handsome soap opera star I was watching on [...]

There comes a time in our lives that we MUST deal with the situations. by Vanessa Richardson
It was a winter wonderland. The tree limbs hung limp, burden from the fallen snow. The moon was full, illuminating the night with its revealing presence. Confused, she continued her lone walk. She was [...]

The excerpt was posted with permission from The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
The Forest
by Somaly Mann
My name is Somaly. At least that’s the name I have now. Like everyone in Cambodia, I’ve had several. Names are the result of temporary choices. You change them the way you’d change lives. As a small [...]

Quiet Time, Belly Up by Allison Pittman
(excerpt reprinted from Saturdays with Stella with permission.)
“Settle.”
He will quiet you with his love. ZEPHANIAH 3:1
The class is set up in the back of the pet store—a circle of chairs cordoned off by a collection of baby gates. We’re almost late [...]

If God Really Loved Me
by Marlo Schalesky

“Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…” It’s such a simple song. I learned it as a child, and sang it probably a thousand times. I never thought to doubt it, until a few short years ago.
It was my thirty-fifth birthday. Thirty-five is [...]

 God knows my name and He knows yours, too! by Vanessa Richardson
She was suddenly hit hard. The unexpected impact sent her sprawling to her knees. She could hear the incessant sound of the rain, pelting against her large bedroom window. It was all a strange phenomenon, to her. [...]

Slogging Through The Mud by Chris Plekenpol

February, 18 2005
(excerpt from FAITH IN THE FOG OF WAR: Volumes II reprinted with permission )

The mud clung to my Belleville boot like a scared child to daddy’s leg. I was on a mission to an informant’s house. Sweat trickled to the edge of my [...]

With Elevation, There’s Tribulation, But You Must Have Expectation That  VICTORY Will Come! by  E. Claudette Freeman
August 2007; I will never forget it.  That is the month that I finally stepped into the path that God had paved for me.  It was a time of realizing that everything else had [...]

UNDILUTED FAITHFULNESS
By Jessica Boling
As I folded my gown and tucked away my brand-new college diploma, a sense of foreboding settled over me. God had carried me through this chapter of my life – I did not doubt that. Four and a half years of essays, deadlines, group projects, and challenging professors. Four and a [...]