

Hope
by Nancy Cole Hope.- It’s a word we use often, and usually without too much thought. It might be “I hope we can get a good parking spot,” or “I hope that package arrives in time,” or even, “Hopefully, the babysitter is available Friday night.” When I think back to my childhood, my hopes were


Don’t miss it
Here I am driving to a meeting, so angry, I mean really feeling angry at God. I had asked Him for one simple thing the night before, sleep. You see, the past few nights, like many of our nights, our special needs son Billy was barely sleeping. It is always difficult to get through the


Wax Fruit
It looked so real. When I was young, we had a beautiful bowl of waxed fruit on our coffee table. It was shiny and pretty. Our real fruit looked beautiful too, on the day we bought it, and possibly the day after. But that wax fruit was perfect and smooth to the touch, and it