Young Friend's Story

A few years ago, my sister, my mom, my cat and I were driving back from my grandparents’ house in the country. They live about an hour away from our house in the city. Right before we left,... [more]

My father had been a troubled man. As a nineteen year old Marine in Korea, he had participated in the landing at Inchon, and the breakout and retreat from the “Frozen Chosin” reservoir. He was deeply scarred by these experiences,... [more]

The story that springs to mind when I’m asked, “When have you been comforted by God?” seems to need to be told backwards.

Quite a while ago at a Yearly Meeting session, I passed the table of a woman I considered... [more]

After the surgery my view from the hospital bed was of the shadowy tops of trees and the dark night sky.  The moon was full, adding light to the darkness, though I never saw the full round beauty of it... [more]

I am a proud mother of two beautiful children, a graduate of higher education, and an experienced professional.  I have a successful career as a Speech Language Pathologist and I own my own business, but I also have a traumatic... [more]

In 2009 I was fired from an organization I had served for eleven years—working my way up to Vice President.  Part of me was angry, indignant, and ready to fight.  That isn’t the story though. Those are mundane human emotions,... [more]

A beautiful summer Saturday, I was nine years old.  I faced a pile of ironing, high as my waist—punishment for some misdeed. I’ve forgotten what it was, or why I had done it, only that atonement waited in laundry piles:... [more]

In 1985, I moved from Oregon to New Jersey.  I found myself halfway between Philadelphia and New York City.  New Jersey challenged all my assumptions about pizza, recycling and customer service.  The people were more aggressive.  Wild spaces were harder... [more]

I’d like to say that we followed the Light into the wilderness.  In reality we headed off into the mountains unprepared and the Light accompanied us, knowing we would need divine intervention.

Years ago my husband and I decided to take... [more]

About halfway through my undergraduate program I hit a snag.  In order to proceed with the normal sequence of chemistry classes for my major I needed to have taken or be concurrently enrolled in general physics.  But I hadn’t started... [more]

My childhood encompassed a special kind of chaos.  I lived in a tiny one-bedroom house with my family in Central California. I slept in a crib in my parents’ room until after turning six, when my grandmother’s Alzheimer’s Disease progressed... [more]

My son’s behavior was making me unbearably anxious, and I prayed almost without ceasing.  It was hard for me to focus at work and sleep at night.  

It was January 1997.  Jesse had been paralyzed from the chest down two years... [more]