Twenty Years Later, I Forgave My Mother Who Abandoned Me

By Kemu In the darkness of the night, I scramble down a seemingly endless lane, looking every which way, but unable to find my way home and wracked with anxiety. All of a sudden, my mother appears in the distance walking toward me and I’m overtaken with a s...

Numbers 16 – Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and 250 Leaders

Korah’s Rebellion (Numbers 16:1-22) Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of...

Bible Verses–Isaiah 40:28-31

Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases...

I Can Get Along Well With the Surly “Big Sister”

By Shu Xun, Italy I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. One night, a big sister working in our restaurant came back from the visit to her hometown. As it was the first time that we met, I greeted her with civility but she ignored me. From her words and ac...

Bible Verse–Proverbs 3:9

Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase:

Experiencing God’s Salvation in Times of Peril

By Gangqiang The year when I first went to work in the city, one of my relatives persuaded me to believe in Bodhisattva, saying that Bodhisattva would protect me in disasters if I believed. I thought at that time: I just want to find a reliance that will sa...

Bible Verses–Luke 6:27-31

But I say to you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which spitefully use you. 29And to him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that takes away your cloak forb...

Psalm 138:3

In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.