No matter how happy our childhood, there are probably times when all of us have felt cut off and alone. This young woman's experience points to a link to love that cannot be broken.
The Lord's Prayer gives us vital information about the basis for parenting. It begins with the profound fact that God is the one true Parent, the source of our identity and of the child's.
One of the most asked questions is the question "why?" But to get down to the real cause of something takes more than questioning. It takes spiritual vision.
Winning a battle isn't necessarily the same thing as securing lasting peace. Christ Jesus saw his followers as being peacemakers —a first-century term very much needed in the twentieth.
More and more we are realizing that all the world's children are our own. Inspired action is needed to help them—and we can each expect to see a widening role we can play.