I STAND OUTSIDE the chapel doors but can’t quite make myself go in. Normally, Sunday is my day of rest. But not today. My students have just turned in their first batch of papers. Narratives. For the most part, the papers recount tales of athletic glory and dating failures—trite stories that make me chuckle or groan, [...]
Whole
by Kimberly Parry
The Skin I’m In
by Melonie Cannon
Like ripening raspberries, red welts raised their fiery heads on my skin. I was at war and my skin was the enemy. I was very young, but I remember holding my limp arms in front of my father and pleading with him to make the pain go away. It seemed he was the only one [...]
Instant Healing—Just Add Patience
by Rebecca Rice Birkin
IT’S THE LITTLE HOUSEHOLD CRISES that get to me. This time, my toddler’s favorite blanket was lost. In an effort to discourage her thumb-sucking, I’d hidden it. Bedtime had come and I couldn’t find the fuzzy pink thing. The memory lapses that come as a fringe benefit of my chronic illness had me opening kitchen cupboards [...]
Cane Testimony: Jacob 4:5-8
by Heather L. Harris Bergevin
As I have many sisters, someday I shall have a daughter, (as you are all my sisters, and all my daughters) and she will look at me, with my three legs and one arm, raising her and her sisters to God, pointing their souls toward Christ, And say, Mama, how is it with your third [...]