A mail carrier became concerned after seeing one of her customers rsquo mail pile up The postal worker knew the elderly woman lived alone and usually picked up her mail every day Making a wise choice the worker mentioned her concern to one of the woman rsquo s neighbors This neighbor alerted yet another neighbor who had a spare key to the woman rsquo s home Together they entered their friend rsquo s home and found her lying on the floor She had fallen four days earlier and couldn rsquo t get up or call for help The postal worker [... more]

When a single mother had to find work to take care of her family in the s she took on typing jobs The only issue was that she wasn rsquo t a very good typist and kept making mistakes She looked for ways to cover up her errors and eventually created what rsquo s known as Liquid Paper a white correction fluid used to cover-up typing errors Once it dries you can type over the cover-up as if there were no errors Jesus offers us an infinitely more powerful and important way to deal with our sin mdash no cover-up [... more]

As our adopted granny lay in her hospital bed after suffering several strokes her doctors were unsure of the amount of brain damage she had endured They needed to wait until she was a bit better to test her brain function She spoke very few words and even fewer were understandable But when the -year-old woman who had babysat my daughter for twelve years saw me she opened her parched mouth and asked ldquo How is Kayla rdquo The first words she spoke to me were about my child whom she had loved so freely and fully Jesus loved children [... more]

The CEO of a frozen treats franchise went undercover on the television series Undercover Boss donning a cashier rsquo s uniform Working at one of the franchise rsquo s stores her wig and makeup disguised her identity as she became the ldquo new rdquo employee Her goal was to see how things were really working from the inside and on the ground Based on her observations she was able to solve some of the issues the store was facing Jesus took on a ldquo humble position rdquo to solve our issues He became human mdash walking the earth teaching us [... more]

The summer after my sophomore year of college a classmate died unexpectedly I rsquo d seen him just a few days prior and he looked fine We and our classmates were young and in what we thought was the prime of our lives having just become sisters and brothers after pledging our respective sorority and fraternity But what I remember most about my classmate rsquo s death was witnessing my fraternity friends live out what James calls true religion The men in his fraternity became like brothers of the sister of the deceased They attended her wedding and traveled to [... more]

Just one Sunday after I rsquo d started working as a youth leader at a church and had met several of the young people I spoke to a teen seated next to her mom As I greeted the shy girl with a smile I said her name and asked how she was doing She lifted her head and her beautiful brown eyes widened She too smiled and said in a small voice ldquo You remembered my name rdquo By simply calling that young girl by name mdash a girl who may have felt insignificant in a church filled with adults [... more]

As I scanned my social media feed in the aftermath of the flood in southern Louisiana I came across a friend rsquo s post After realizing her home would have to be gutted and rebuilt my friend rsquo s mom encouraged her to look for God even in the heart-wrenching work of cleaning up My friend later posted pictures of Bible verses she uncovered on the exposed door frames of the home apparently written at the time the home had been built Reading the Scriptures on the wooden planks gave her comfort The tradition of writing Bible verses on doorframes [... more]