Kyle didn’t have a daddy. Every day of his seventeen years he longed to know the man who fathered him. He asked his momma a million times “Who’s my daddy?” He begged his momma a million times more to tell him something, anything about his … [Read more...]

Pearl is a lonely sweet sixteen. She doesn’t fit in with the other students at her high school and hasn’t (yet) found a friend she can relate to. Pearl is different because she is an old soul. You know the type, she is more comfortable in … [Read more...]

The two boys could not be more different. Yet they are alike. One tall, energetic like a clumsy puppy on spindly legs. That’s Matt. The other is average height for a young man of twenty, not heavy in weight but soft in the way you can tell … [Read more...]

A house is built by man and a home is built by God. It’s a holy partnership, a union of earthly and Divine talents. I am an imposing figure. I was conceived in 1879. I am a three-story, 24,000 square foot Victorian mansion located in Chicago's … [Read more...]

Harold is a tough customer. He is rough on the outside and not much smoother on the inside. Though he's a good man, he is not a nice man. The way Harold Brown sees it is he had some bad luck. His wife died just as he was preparing for retirement. … [Read more...]

It was a love-hate relationship made difficult by the fact that she never loved me. I knew it all along of course. But it didn’t stop me from loving my stepmother. God said to find it in your heart to love all His children, and I take that … [Read more...]

 Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938. It was not a good time or place to be a Jew. Tillie Pfelzer thought maybe God wasn’t paying attention so she took matters into her own hands. She left her husband behind and took her daughter … [Read more...]

God gave Dave and Robbi one son. That’s all. Just one. One child to raise, one child to love. One perfect Sam. Well, nobody is perfect but some come pretty darn close - count Sammy in that group. Dave and Robbi are friends of ours. Dave and my … [Read more...]

Kirsten Marie Frances Nowak is that girl you noticed when you picked your son up early from middle-school last week for his dentist appointment. You saw her in the playground sitting alone on a bench reading a book...with pages. The other girls … [Read more...]