A little over two years ago my two eldest daughters and I took my ninety-plus-year-old grandmother back to her house in another state. I was driving that day when a truck plowed into the back of my car, crushing my two princesses and my grandmother. I was hospitalized for more than a month of physical [...]
Eight years ago the father of my children committed suicide.... I was very unhappy, so I had decided to leave him and take my children.... He was unfaithful to me and hurt me a lot. That night that it happened he said that he wished I were dead. I was really scared because I could [...]
My mother died a few months ago, and I’m not sure if I grieved for her. Since that time, I have noticed a significant change in my personality. My behavior and actions have changed so much that I have come to the point of not showing respect to my family.... I am afraid, sad, and [...]
A few weeks ago, I traveled to another country without my twenty-eight and thirty-year-old adult children. Just a few days later, my older son jumped from a third floor and killed himself. So I returned to my country, but now I don’t have the energy to do anything at all. I would appreciate a word [...]
I believe that I interfered with God’s will. I am a medical doctor, and a little less than a year ago my brother, the person who I loved most in this world, died during surgery for a brain tumor. I was angry and I blamed my mother for the delay in my brother’s diagnosis because [...]
The Bible says that only God the Father knows when the final events of humanity will take place.... I think that those events cause many of us to wonder, and some people to feel terrified about the impending last judgment. What should the attitude of the Christian be when faced with the real possibility that [...]
I can’t stop thinking about something that bothers me and scares me to death. I have always wondered about eternity, and if sometime after death, once we’re in heaven, God will destroy us. It feels like He created us for a finite time period and, after that time is over, He will discard us. It [...]
When I was twenty-one I married a special man... but two months after our second child was born my husband died of cancer.... I had to give up all outside work and activities in order to take care of my children.... A year ago I married again, and my children love my new husband.... But [...]
A year ago, my father passed away. He was a good father, though with many weaknesses.... My older brother invited me to go to the cemetery to take flowers to his gravesite, but my mother and younger sister do not think that we should do that. They interpret it as revering the dead. Would it [...]
From our childhood on, my sister and I shared everything. She was a little older than I am, and was like a mother to me. Nevertheless, as a brainless traitor, I misspent her hard-earned money on a lost property.... Then, when she needed to get over an illness, I couldn’t help her. I caused her [...]
