Hero is a word we hear a lot these days. It’s a headline grabbing title that is used to push the deeds of ordinary people into the spotlight. If you envision great deeds performed by extraordinary people, you will be disappointed soon after you get past the headlines. They act (or react) at the right […]

Seeing a picture of a young girl in tears, standing beside a radical Muslim fighter, I prayed for her courage and protection. The headline told of Christian children being beheaded. I don’t know what happened to that child, but I know she was in a better position than her captor. The captor seemed to be

I used to hang out on the train tracks, a popular place, and the cool place where “everyone who was anyone” hung out. I heard stories that a train was coming and it was dangerous to stay there. I had never seen a train come this way and didn’t know anyone who had seen a

Perhaps you have seen the idealized picture of the elderly couple walking hand-in-hand with their faces lit up with gentle, but telling smiles. Looking at them we can’t tell how they got to that point. In these times of short relationships we focus on this “happy ever after” scene and hope to be like that

I am part of a clinical trial for a vaccine that will hopefully prevent the elderly and very young from catching a deadly (non-COVID) virus. A pharmaceutical company is spending a small fortune to ensure the efficacy and find possible side effects before they submit this medicine for final approval. The company wants to prove