To allow feelings of regret to overwhelm us can be a dangerous thing. Regret or guilt can make us look at our life the wrong way. How many times have…

Mark was a skeptical person. He hated being this way but he couldn’t help himself. He had this strange fear that people were not really going to come through for…

A young man writes of his mother’s death, “I was bewildered and lost.  I missed my mother immensely.  Everything she had touched became precious to me.  Then one day my…

Robert had a secret. There was something that he did in his past that he truly regretted and was ashamed of. It was a sin, plain and simple, and he…

It is not always good for us to cling to something too desperately. It can end up clouding our vision and make us fearful and anxious that we may lose…

Bill is having trouble in his marriage. He keeps telling himself that everything will work out all right in the end. Naively, he thinks the problem lies just with his…

How many times have you been through something in your life that makes no sense to you? You don’t know why it’s happening. It causes you pain and stress, and…

Although Robert would never say this out loud to anyone, including his wife, he had to admit to himself that he struggled with feelings of disappointment concerning his son. When…

A man is in his car. It is a Saturday afternoon during Lent and he is driving by his parish church. And he thinks to himself, “I really should go…

A man by the name of Bob Considine tells the story of the time he accompanied an infant Vietnamese orphan to the United States so she could be adopted after…

A man sits by himself at the far end of the bar. He stares absently into his drink and hears these words coming from somewhere in the room: ... and when the…

As Mary sat in the back of church waiting to enter the confessional, she prayed, “Lord, help me to let go of my resentment of Rick.” Rick was her ex-husband,…