“Please! Me! Please, please, please!” The village children, with an eagerness bordering on desperation, pleaded for the gifts I had for them. You see, I had just come down from summiting...
“I don’t know how to reach you,“ I whispered in tears. The person on the screen in front of me said, “I have no idea what you mean!“ It was an excruciatingly painful moment. I was in the midst of...
“I don’t even really want to be alive! I’ve lost everything that really matters to me, and I cannot imagine things getting worse!“ When I said that to my mentor and coach, wasn’t she supposed to say...
“Why don’t you stay here and enjoy the fire and let someone else do this?“ Little did he know that the fire that was driving me was not the fire in the fireplace. It was the fire in my belly and...
“Please pull the car over immediately,” I said with some urgency. I was frantically searching my purse. The driver pulled into a parking lot. I hopped out and ran 2 1/2 blocks back to the...
“I’ve always had that deep longing and yearning you’ve been writing about. I love reading it, and I wish I could be that. But it’s too late for me! Too much sewage under my proverbial bridge!” That is...
I was leaning on the counter, watching the seconds tick off of the clock at the end of the workday. There was something in me that wanted to grab my head and scream out: “No! NO! NOOOOO! There...
“He drinks too much, he is financially irresponsible, and his apartment is gross. But I love him! My parents sent me to see you because they believe I’m making a big mistake!” I wish that were an...
“I was packing jars of jam, and I was going to write ‘FRAGILE’ on the box. But instead, I felt compelled to write the words ‘VERY FRAGILE.’ At that moment it felt like God was telling me that...
