Joseph, husband of Mary, had guts. He had the guts to pay attention to his dreams.

A 6-year-old climbed into her mother’s lap the morning of Christmas Eve, and said, “Mommy, I’m afraid I’m going to die.”

Imagine Mary’s bewilderment when the angel Gabriel greeted her with the familiar words, “Hail, Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with you.”

There are two seconds left to play. The shooter is at the foul line. The game will be decided by his two free throws. He needs to make both of them to win the game. It is all on his shoulders.

“Who are you, Michael? That will be the defining question of your life. And I think you already know the answer, and that's why we're all here.”

Anyone who has ever gone on a job interview knows that two elements can be the determining factors to getting hired or not. The first is the resumé.

This Advent, a mother who has been addicted to diet pills will find the strength to get help from her doctor to kick the habit. A father who has blown his top once too often will find better ways to deal with his anger and frustrations

In my neighborhood, the houses are small and so are the yards. We live very close to each other and therefore learn a lot about our neighbors inadvertently.

When Henry Ford put the Model T on the first assembly line, he boasted that you could have it in any color you wanted—as long as it was black.

Family members were on edge. A beloved aunt had died, and all her grown nieces and nephews were gathered in her home to figure out how to dispose of her lifetime of belongings. You could feel the tension in the room.