Category: Stories

A STORY TOLD IN HER VOICE The Moment That Changed Everything I was no one special. Just Mary— a girl from Nazareth, a village so small you could hear a neighbor sneeze three houses away. My days were simple: grinding grain, drawing water, stitching cloth, dreaming of the life Joseph and I would build. One…

(The following is a true story. Lynn and Sandi Bliss were traveling from Traverse City, Michigan, to Detroit to take their son, Victor to the airport. Victor had just finished his first year of College, and was going on a mission trip to Germany.) Somehow, Sandi managed to free herself from her seat belt. She…

The First Song — A God Who Loves Music The Lord your God is in your midst,    a mighty one who will save;he will rejoice over you with gladness;    he will quiet you by his love;he will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17 Here I am telling my imagined story of God and His love…

Here are a couple of Psalms and then a story they led me to write. I hope they and it gives you pause to think about the world we live in and the God who created it. Psalm 24 tells us that God owns the world for He is the one who created it. Not…

A Disciple’s Perspective The grain brushed against us as we walked, dry stalks whispering against our sleeves. Someone ahead of me laughed quietly at something Peter said, but the sound didn’t last. Hunger has a way of thinning conversation. We had been on the road since early morning, and now the sun pressed down with…

There was a small town where everyone carried a song inside them. Most people never noticed it. They hummed without thinking while washing dishes, tapped rhythms on steering wheels, or whistled in grocery aisles. Music slipped out of them the way breath did—unremarkable, unconscious. To them, sound was background noise, something to fill the quiet…

The harmonica was lying half-buried near the fence where the grass thinned and the ground turned hard and gray. At first the boy thought it was just another piece of trash—something shiny the sun had caught. But when he nudged it with his shoe, it turned and flashed in the light—a brief, deliberate brightness, like…

Parts 1 and 2 SOMETHING PART 1 Nothing cannot create something if it is nothing. Can it? Well, that is where the mystery begins. Except where there is nothing there can be no mystery, because nothing is, well, nothing. But just when nothing had settled into being… umm, nothing—quiet, empty, unchanging—something stirred. Not because nothing…

Purpose. Somewhere, somehow life had to have, has to have purpose. Have you found yours? Are you still searching. Look at Ernest. He discovered life was more than just his work. Life is meant for living in relationships. Ernest looked in the mirror, staring at a face that carried a burden he struggled to carry.…

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” ― C.S. Lewis The morning started gently, as most mornings did. The sun was just coming up, the dew was still on the grass, sparkling like diamonds as the sun…