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...

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

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...

I Build a Correct View on Faith in God After Experiencing an Illness

By Amelie, France Recently, I read an article about prayer on the internet, which caused me to recollect my former attitude toward prayer. When I was 9, I turned to the Lord, for I saw the manifestation of the Lord’s power in my mother. Having suffered many...

The Israelites Worship the Golden Calf

The Golden Calf (Exodus 32:1-6) 1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that b...

Exodus 16 – Manna and Quail from Heaven

Manna and Quail from Heaven (Exodus 16:1-21) And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their depart...