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In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “God doesn’t just want to restore your shattered dreams and broken lives—He has so much more in store for you. He doesn’t just want to make your live whole; He wants to use your pain to bring hope to others.” --Shattered Dreams, 106 Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) For…

Andrew Lloyd-Webber was suffering intense pain in his leg. Fourteen surgical interventions left him in such agony he wanted to die. In his own words he said, “I went through a moment of deep depression—that awful moment when you think you must find a way out.” From there he descended to contemplating…

A British paintball company says they were surprised by the number of applicants for a job post they put up. The company is looking for a ‘bullet tester’ with a ‘relatively high pain threshold’ and has received about 10,000 applicants. They are looking for a person willing to be shot at to ensure that…

A 13-year-old-girl who was hit by a stray bullet is recovering from surgery and working through her pain. Tiya Hudson was hit in the back when a bullet went through the side of her house. Several neighbors heard an argument outside, but no one is sure where the bullet came from. Hudson’s doctors think…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “Life is not about you and your dreams, shattered or otherwise. It is about God’s plan of redemption. A plan you get to be a part of when you accepted His precious gift of salvation. And a plan you get to participate in as you submit your shattered dreams to…

Physicians can use the latest medical technology to examine our internal organs, but one of the biggest health concerns people face cannot be seen. Research indicates emotions can impact a person’s health as much as problems with various organs can. Among the links that have been discovered are a link…

When Marvin Olasky moved to a new home in Asheville, North Carolina, he was not aware of the presence of poison ivy on his new property. Soon he was itching, blistering, oozing, and miserable enough to see the Doctor. The doctor prescribed 12 days of prednisone pills, one of the side effects is insomnia.…

Aaron was happy being alone. His trips into the western wilderness areas were usually by himself. Then came the day when an 800-pound boulder fell and trapped his right arm. Alone, with no hope of rescue, no one even knew where he was, he endured 127 hours of entrapment. He finally broke the bone, cut…

Sometimes comfort needs to be more than words. “The New York Times reports that touch is its own complicated, highly accurate, highly effective signaling system.” They interpret that to mean that high fives and sympathetic touches can say more than words. --Reader’s Digest, May 2010, p24 Illustration…

Do you have a verse to the “somebody done me wrong song?” Most of us do. Most of us know the pain of being treated wrong and rehearsing the wrong in our mind. However, as the years go by, I wonder how accurate our memory is? In Caring Enough to Confront, David Augsberger writes, “Most of the pictures…

What happened to Nagla al-Imam and her two children? An Egyptian citizen, al-Imam converted to Christianity. Recently, a controversial attorney made her conversion public. “In an interview broadcast by Free Christian Voice she described being arrested and beaten by Egyptian security forces for her change…

Grace My mother always had to remind me to wash my hands before dinner. It just seemed like such a waste of time to me, I mean, they weren't that dirty, besides, I used silverware to eat with, well, most of the time I did. She also had to remind me to make my bed and clean up my room. Why make the bed?…

Mother’s Day isn’t the easiest day for Cheryl to go to church. It isn’t that she resents the pastor passing out roses to the mothers or recognizing the oldest, youngest and the mother with the most children. It’s just that she wishes that sometime during the service someone would recognize those present…

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, his wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face.…

In the movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks plays a FedEx worker marooned on an island when his plane crashes. Over the course of a couple of years he stays on that island suffering all kinds of difficulty from starting his own fire to building the raft that finally takes him to rescue. One of the most difficult…

Jerry Jenkins tells the story of an acquaintance named Raymond who was awakened in the night by the telephone. As Raymond made his way to the phone, his thoughts immediately raced to his two married sons and his daughter in college. Phone calls at that time of night rarely brought good news, and so he…

JEALOUSY/ABUSE Writing for “The Spectator,” the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language, Theodore Dalrymple coined a helpful term: “morbid jealousy.” His column entitled, “Black-eyed monster” exposed the unhealthy life patterns of abusive, over-controlling jealous men. Typically,…

GOD'S LOVE In their book, "The Insider", Peterson & Shamy write, "God loves people whether they love him back or not. The farmer who hates God gets just as much sun and rain on his crops as does his neighbor the next farm over, who loves God. Why do the wicked prosper? They prosper because God loves…

If necessity is the mother of invention, pain is the mother of necessity.

For those who saw replays of the pitch, it is unforgettable. Pitching for the Giants and leading 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Dave Dravecky delivered his 69th pitch of the night. It was the last pitch he would ever make with that left arm. The bone broke in mid pitch and he fell to the ground…

My son once hurt himself while playing his favorite toy -- a Star Wars light sabre. He had taken the plastic blade and shoved it back in the handle, and when he did that, his hand got caught in the moving plastic. He cried so loudly that it could be heard throughout the entire house. But when his mother…

That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the throbbing pain, a new study suggests. Swearing is a common response to pain, but no previous research has connected the uttering of an expletive to the actual physical experience of pain.…

“There are two kinds of pain: pain of risk and pain of regret.” - Kare Anderson, conflict- resolution specialist 48days.com, 1-24-2006

We are perplexed to see misfortune falling upon decent, inoffensive, worthy people - on capable, thrifty, little trades-people, on those who have worked so hard, and so honestly, for thier modest stock of happiness and know seem to be entering on the enjoyment of it with the fullest right. . . Let me…

RESTORATION Donna grew in a Christian home in South Carolina. She went to church beginning in nursery school. In high school and her early college year she devoted herself to Christian youth groups, and even served as a summer missionary teaching the Bible to young people from 50 churches. In her later…