Sitting in the doctor’s office, Chris and Mary listened to the list of shots and possible illnesses with growing apprehension. Meningitis. Typhoid. Yellow Fever. “There was a point where we were kind of like, we must be crazy,” said Mary, laughing. “What are we doing,...
When I was a child, I always looked forward to visiting the greeting card section at the grocery store. I loved searching through all the different cards. I liked the ones that sang or made noises and laughed at the ones with jokes, but my favorites were always the...
“My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty! There’s nothing my God cannot do!” When I sing those lyrics to my nephew, Emerson, he stops crying. He looks at me, and I can tell he’s listening. One day when he’s older, he’ll be able to sing along with me. Even though...
The moment that Florinda looked into her daughter’s eyes for the first time, she fell in love. Beatriz was small, but Florinda knew she couldn’t afford to feed another child. She could barely feed the ones she already had. Florinda and her husband work tirelessly to...
Pedro cries day and night. While most kids his age spend their days learning to walk, Pedro lies on his back, staring at the laminated roof of his family’s little adobe home. His body is constantly in pain, and his skin is inflamed with sores. He is weak, and if...
