Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.