For more than ten years, I’ve talked with Alan* on a regular basis. Disabled since childhood, he’s spent most of his 40 years confined to a bed. Yet from the very beginning, his spirit struck me as unusually sweet—resilient, hopeful, and remarkably free of self-pity....

Anna* wasn’t always this way. As a youth, her laughter could light up a room when she sang in the church choir and volunteered at potlucks with joy in her eyes. But slowly, something inside her began to shift. Personality changes crept in—dark clouds of depression and...

“Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13 There’s a hush that falls over the heart when we read those words—“the blessed hope.” They speak of the most longed-for moment in all of human history: the...