“From my youth I have suffered and been close to death... darkness is my closest friend” (Ps. 88:15-18). After Mack[*] broke things off,...

“...You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.” (Psalm 86:17) I didn’t think anything could hurt so much. Never in my life had I...

“Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?” (Proverbs 20:11) NOTE: Again, names have...

“If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a [person] like myself,...

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay Is the above...

Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time....

“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24). By...