Esther's
Perspective

  On my back porch hangs a planter that just a year ago held a big, beautiful green fern. Today it is just a bunch

  “What are you looking for?”   The answer to this question varies a lot depending on where you find yourself in life. If you

The day was off to a promising start. It was Saturday and I was spending a lazy hour or two reading and meditating on Scripture.

What has happened to my words? Am I walking the wrong road? How can I be sure that this is what God wants me to

  The desire to be accepted is as old as time. I once knew a young man who, like many young people, was grappling with

As a young boy, my dad spent many a Friday evening in the auction barn at Green Dragon in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His love of

You remember what your mother said to you, don’t you, whenever you burped loudly at the table or displayed some other obvious sign of improper

  The porch light illuminated the faces of my brother and his family as they stood by the back door, waiting for me to grant

“Carinda, come here. I have something for you.” Upon hearing those words, our youngest daughter came running to her daddy. She loved presents of any