Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.