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How an Art Class Gave This Worried Mom Hope

My heart broke a little with each step my 18-year-old son took toward the white Volkswagen idling in…

Honoring the Process of Grief and Loss

“Grief is a cruel kind of education,” writes the award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the early pages…

His Son’s Brave Battle to Recover from Polio Bolstered a Father’s Faith

Guideposts celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. We’ve been looking back at stories that mark important events during…

Her Son Helped Her Learn to Cope with COPD

My husband, Jim, added another pill to the pile of meds on the kitchen counter. Ever since my…

Her Mother With Alzheimer’s Sang ‘Silent Night’

In my mother’s room at the mem­ory care center, I dug through the clothes piled on the floor…

Her Mom With Alzheimer’s Still Inspires Her

If there was a way to capture the essence of my mom, Naomi, it was through her cooking.…

He Put His Dreams on Hold to Be a Caregiver, Then Found the Inspiration He Needed

Mom hooked her arm through mine. We walked slowly across the back porch, or at least as fast…

He Learned to See His Wife Through God’s Eyes

I lay in bed asking a question I never imagined I’d ask: Was my marriage about to collapse?…

Guideposts Classics: Naomi Judd on Stepping Out in Faith

Once liver disease forced me to retire from my country music career in 1991 I thought people wouldn’t…

God and His Mother Inspired Michael Colyar to Get Sober

Every morning, i look in the mirror and I like the guy I see. My mother and God…

Forgiving the Sins of the Father

How did Mom ever put up with all of this? I won­dered, not for the first time since…

Forgiving Her Alcoholic Father Helped Her Feel Whole

The phone rang in my of­fice. I was preparing for an evening talk at the university where I…

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