Health

If you have a sweet tooth, dark chocolate offers rewards beyond melt-in-your-mouth “yumminess.” Besides satisfying our taste buds, it is also heart-healthy. Most of its health benefits originate from flavonoids that act as antioxidants. For several centuries, in fact, cocoa and chocolate have been used in many cultures as a ...

Imagine yourself in a beautiful, safe place of love. It is a place you feel valued and able to do anything. You are free to be creative and to be yourself. That place of love is where God intends for you to live. My heart-felt prayer is that you know what ...

I recently had a conversation with a young man who said, in reference to getting started in life, “No one is showing us how.” That is true to some degree. When people leave high school and home, many do not have a clearly defined objective. That is not a bad ...

Winter is wearying.  The struggles it brings weigh down our days.  The bleak landscape and destructive power of winter can overwhelm even hardy souls.  The secular world names winter discouragement, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). With the light of faith, though, winter produces treasures.  The crystals of ice and snow proclaim ...

Do you realize that the very hairs on your head are numbered by our Creator (Matt 10:30)? Our Lord is omniscient, which means He knows all things, but sometimes we must wonder in awe at the numerical values of the universe. In Jeremiah 33:22, we are told that the host ...