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,…

For the second time in one semester, Jimmy has been suspended from his high school. The Principal tells Jimmy and his parents that he has only one more chance, and…

Alan was in his early fifties. He was sitting the pew of his parish church waiting for Mass to begin. He was there with his wife and his two children.…

Anyone who got to know Jason would say that he was a restless kind of guy. He had done well in grade school with hardly any studying at all. His…

Consider this thought: “If it’s a mistake to add the burden of the past to the weight of the present, it’s a worse mistake to burden the present with the…

A little child was playing one day with a very valuable vase and put her hand into it and could not get it out. Her father tried to help her,…