Category: Children

Living an overcoming life against overwhelming odds. by Kerri Ellen Hanke as told to Priscilla Tate Gilmore Things were not going as expected. A routine trip for an ultrasound of my fourth child, Annie, led to another ultrasound and an amniocentesis. With each test, the possibility of a heart defect hovered like a dark cloud. Little…

How do you handle the loss of a child when they’re still alive? One mother has learned the heartbreaking realities of a silent epidemic that happens frequently in families, and she has clung to God in the process.

One day your daughter is fine, the next she is sick — and gets worse as time goes on. How can things go so sideways? One mother discovered that God was working behind the scenes in her daughter’s sickness and would use it for the girl’s eternal good.

He was a pre-teen who came with warnings from the foster care system of creating problems, but a husband and wife still wanted him. They believed what he really needed was tough love. And that made the difference.

The unique ways God shows up when we trust Him. by Denise E. Arzoian   Some people see God in a sunset. Others, in the eyes of a child. Me? I see God in a ’98 Buick.  Our daughter, Jennifer, was married with three children when we started noticing some alarming behavior in her. She…

Pregnancy can bring not just physical pain to a woman but emotional pain as well. Through time in nature and God’s help in prayer, one woman overcame her anxieties and self-doubt about becoming a mother.

Children are a blessing of the Lord, the Bible says. But some women don’t have the privilege of enjoying that blessing, for one reason or another. For one woman, the blessing of a baby came in a way she never expected.