What could I possibly need at the Lenox Square mall? Or afford, for that matter.
And yet here I was in a posh department store, trying to avoid salesladies spritzing French perfumes that probably cost more than my monthly rent. All because of a voice.
I’d been in my car, running errands and minding my own business, when I first heard it. Clear as a bell. “Go to Lenox!” I slammed on my brakes and looked over my shoulder in case someone had jumped into the backseat. But I was alone in the car. It’s just stress, I told myself. I was a private-duty nurse, out of work for six months and looking for a new job. I took a deep breath, tried to clear my head. The voice came back. Again and again. Not sure what else to do, I turned my car around and drove 30 miles to the Lenox Square mall. Or, as we locals referred to it, Lenox.
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Ivy Dishes
“My mom found a house for us to look at,” said my fiancé, Jon. “It’s in Richfield, not far from where I grew up.”
The Duet
“Can you perform a hymn for us next week?” my pastor asked me after Sunday service.
The Girl in the Dream
Was this a church? The high, vaulted ceilings made it seem like one—almost but not exactly.
News From Around Our Wonderful World
Liverpool, England Joanne Carr is hailing her son, Dougie McInerney, as her guardian angel.
A Light in the Blizzard
I stepped on the gas and shifted into drive, then reverse, then back into drive again.
Straight From the Fish's Mouth
Florence, Italy. I’d been there before on one of those scruffy five-dollar-a-day youth-hostel jaunts through Europe, but now, just graduated from college, I was wondering what to do with my life.
Divine Callings
Have you ever felt called to a purpose?
Dad's Voice
As I reached to turn off the lamp on my bedside table, my eyes fell on the card my brother Isaac had given each of us siblings on what would have been Dad’s sixty-eighth birthday.
Ben's Answer
It was midafternoon, and I was already curled up on the couch in the living room with no plans to move.
A Doll's Hat
My fears around the surgery built all day.... God, please let me be as strong as my young patients are.
