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Helping Hands

I sat on the bed with a handful of my mother’s drugs. Little white pills cupped in my 12-year-old hand.

News From Around Our Wonderful World

West Deptford Township, New Jersey Some of Austin Schwarz’s favorite childhood memories were spent on his dad’s fishing boat.

The Best Travel Agent

The lake caught my eye in a glint of January sunlight.

Weight of the World

I stood near the railing of the ferry as it skimmed over Lake Erie toward the small island of Put-in-Bay.

The Toothache

The pain was sharp and sudden.

Heavenly Scent

It was a Saturday afternoon.

Gigi

I drove slowly back from the store, content to go below the speed limit.

Garage Sale Treasure

“Please help, Mom,” I whispered.

A voice in the storm

Your house is going to be struck by lightning today.

On The Road

I stuck my thumb out into the biting wind. I was somewhere in Utah, trying to hitch a ride as the daylight faded. It was bitterly cold and beginning to snow. I had on a coat and the combat boots I’d worn in Vietnam. But not much else to protect me from the late spring snowstorm.

Found Mystic: Thomas Traherne

London, 1896. A dusty old bookstall overflows with piles of tomes and manuscripts.

Lost Trail Road

The truck bumped and jolted as we drove up the steep gravel road through a dense green forest.

Flowers For Anna Jean

It was my day off, and I was on my way to visit Mom. It had been a while, and I was looking forward to seeing her. Driving the familiar highway, I passed a turnoff and thought, That’s the road to Anna Jean’s.

Q&A Dr. Charity Virkler Kayembe

A DREAM EXPERT AND AUTHOR ANSWERS OUR MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS.

The Billboard

Take a gun and end it all, Sheryl, said a dark, mocking voice in the back of my mind. End it and all this pain and worry will be over.

The Beekeeper's Dream

Hummmmmm…

The Lady With The Lamp

How many historic figures made positive impacts because they answered God’s call? Perhaps a call they’d heard during a mysterious experience such as having a vision or dream or hearing a voice?

Freedom Rings

The night I had the dream began like most nights—with me lying awake on my prison cot, each excruciating detail of my arrest and sentencing running through my head. It had been years since I’d been convicted for a crime I did not commit, but the entire ordeal was still fresh in my mind. As soon as I lay down in my cell to try to sleep, the replay would begin. This particular night started out no differently….

The Unexplained Visitor

Laurin Bellg has practiced medicine for more than 20 years, specializing in critical care.

'I Believe'

It was Christmas Eve morning, and I awoke with a mission: to find my lost cat, Baby-Girl. As I got ready, I could hear icy rain pelting the windows. I said a quick prayer for Baby-Girl. She was out there somewhere in the storm, I could just feel it. Sure, it had been six months since she’d gone missing, but I still had faith. It was the season for miracles, after all.

Secrets Of The Afterlife

Dr. Raymond Moody has dedicated his life to the afterlife. The 72-year old psychiatrist, philosopher and researcher is known as the dean of near-death-experience (NDE) studies, thanks to his groundbreaking 1975 bestseller, Life After Life. Mysterious Ways sat down with Dr. Moody to discuss the great beyond, the “nonsense of dying” and his own trip to the outskirts of eternity.

Sarah's Siddur

The Western Wall was even more breathtaking than it looked in photographs.

Love-Crossed Lives

Justin Peay and Alaina Lewis couldn’t stop bumping into each other.

Finding Narnia

I discovered C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia by a happy accident. I plucked The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in the series of children’s stories about the magical land of Narnia, from a rack in my elementary school library. Then, almost as if that one drew the others, a family friend gave me all seven books in a boxed set for my next birthday.

The Meaning Of Suffering

The Meaning Of Suffering

The Sunset Moment

Ann Satterfield vividly remembers her first patient as a hospital chaplain intern in New York City.

our moment

glenn’s habit was to wake up well before sunrise to go for a hike in the arizona wilderness. on summer sundays, we’d hike together for an hour before church. otherwise i’d still be sleeping. the morning he died, a saturday, i was wide awake. we said, “i love you,” and he kissed me goodbye. the last words he said to me were, “i’ll try to call from the top of the world,” the nickname for brown’s peak, in the four peaks wilderness.

The Gift That Keeps Giving

These three shoppers got a lot more than they bargained for…

What John Muir Beheld

On my shelf at home, I keep a treasured photo album of my great-grandfather’s trip to Yosemite in 1901.

Star Turn: Matthew McConaughey

“Just keep livin’.”