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fear

Posted by roxanne robbins on April 10th, 2012 | 3 responses

During my first 3 years in Uganda, I had occasional contact with blood as I held dying children, helped to dress wounds and open tumors, and sought to comfort AIDS and cancer patients. My understanding was that as long as... read more »

sydnie & me

Posted by tom felten on April 9th, 2012 | 5 responses

Last year I went through a bone marrow transplant (BMT). By God’s grace, I didn’t go it alone. Family and friends walked with me through the procedure and subsequent months of recovery. But there was someone else who... read more »

unexpected journeys

Posted by Jeff Olson on April 5th, 2012 | 4 responses

Unexpected journeys. Little and big—life is full of them. A quick trip to the grocery store turns into a car accident, injuries, and several months of recuperation. A routine drive home from work turns into a breakdown on... read more »

delight

Posted by an odj community member on March 30th, 2012 | one response

So constant, faithful, reliable, and unceasing! Your mighty hands uphold me FOREVER! Your strength is unmistakable; it’s perfection always uncovered in my devastating weaknesses. Though I wish I could show You the... read more »

gator aid

Posted by tom felten on March 30th, 2012 | one response

When Alexis Dunbar returned home, she received a huge surprise. A living, breathing alligator was lurking in her guest bedroom! The 6-foot gator had crawled out of a pond in her backyard and somehow squeezed through a small,... read more »

loving through prayer

Posted by an odj community member on March 26th, 2012 | 4 responses

How many of you have experienced trying to care for someone but not truly being able to do it? I have, and it’s taken place over the past few days. I’m in Australia studying while my girlfriend in Singapore is running a... read more »

wasted brainwaves

Posted by jennifer benson schuldt on March 26th, 2012 | 8 responses

I chatted with a close friend while standing in line at a local coffeehouse. But then a sliver of worry pierced the moment. It had been several hours since I left home. I wondered if I had been away too long. I pictured my... read more »

reversal

Posted by marvin williams on March 24th, 2012 | 2 responses

The Erie County Correctional Facility recently experienced a role reversal in guard-inmate relations. It took place when an inmate broke up a fight between two correctional officers who were fighting over a bag of potato... read more »

desertion

Posted by mike wittmer on March 22nd, 2012 | 7 responses

My friend is enduring a brutal divorce. His wife has been unfaithful, and now she’s attacking his character and draining their savings as their case lumbers through the courts. Every kind gesture is thrown back in his... read more »

why faith?

Posted by tom felten on March 19th, 2012 | 5 responses

In an interview, pop music star Katy Perry stated that she wasn’t thrilled with her strict religious upbringing. “I didn’t have a childhood,” she lamented. “I’ve always been the kid who’s asked ‘Why?’ In my... read more »