Having experienced the recent two-year anniversary of my mother’s death (on January 13th), I’ve realized how grateful I am for having been able to be with her as she passed from this life to the next. Reflecting on those final days and hours with her, I feel honored to be blessed with a deep inner […]

Our 14-year-old dog Abbey died last month. The day after she passed away my 4-year-old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we […]

It was nearing the holiday season, 1994, time for our orphans to hear, for the first time, the traditional story of Christmas. We told them about Mary and Joseph arriving in Bethlehem. Finding no room in the inn, the couple went to a stable, where the baby Jesus was born and placed in a manger. […]

In March 2011, Rita and Albert Chretien disappeared while driving from their home in Penticton, B.C., to a trade show in Las Vegas—their GPS has led them astray…onto a logging road. A group of hunters found Rita 49 days later in the couple’s Chevy Astro minivan that was stuck in the mud. Thirty pounds lighter, […]

Thanks for sending the following to me, Diana: A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been six-years-old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to […]

Such exciting news: Scientists in Canada and Europe have discovered another effective use for an EEG (electroencephalogram)…to test for whether or not a person, in what doctors call “a persistent vegetative state”, are still “in there.” The EEG can detect awareness. Prof. Adrian Owen and Dr. Damian Cruse, from the University of Western Ontario’s Brain […]

This morning I was absolutely delighted to see video of a two-week-old baby girl being rescued from the earthquake rubble in Eastern Turkey. Apparently the mother is still to be pulled out of the collapsed building. She had been sitting with her baby in the living room when the walls caved in around them two […]

I am not gone I remain here beside you Just in a different form Look for me in your heart And there you will find me in our love which forever lives on In those moments when you feel alone Look for me in your thoughts And there you will find me in sweet memories […]

Heaven’s gate swung gently open, The Master called softly, “Come,” And you, dear one, took the Master’s hand, And your work on earth was done. We’ll never cease to miss you, And shed many silent tears, Because we cannot share with you Our hopes, our joys, our fears. But one day, in God’s garden, When […]

Down a road that’s calm and peaceful, Guided by God’s loving hand, He has gone upon a journey To a distant, brighter land. And although our hearts are heavy With sorrow we still bear, It helps to bring us comfort, Knowing he is happy there. Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend […]