It only takes a brief scroll through the daily news to realize we live in a broken world marked by pain, tragedy, and lives taken too soon.In our humanness, it’s hard to reconcile why an all-powerful, all-loving God would allow such evil — so when “bad things happen to good people,” it often becomes a natural reaction to lash out at Him. One grieving mother, Angee Penner, is all too familiar with that feeling of burning anger at the Almighty for not exercising His omnipotence to save her daughter. “Ever want to yell at God? If you’re so almighty give…
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Divorce is devastating, and no man knows that better than 36-year-old Matthew Fray.What’s often hardest to bear is that the way to resolve your marriage usually becomes clearest after it’s over. Such was the case for Matt.Once his wife left him, he noticed the reason for his marital demise glaring straight at him from the kitchen sink. That’s right. The dishes. “It seems so unreasonable when you put it that way: My wife left me because sometimes I leave dishes by the sink,” he writes in his blog post. “It makes her seem ridiculous; and makes me seem like a…
After going through a terrible divorce, Kristina Kuzmic resolved that she may never find love again, and she was just fine with that—that was until she met a man who went where NO man had gone before.She shares her touching story in a viral Facebook post shared by Love What Matters. “I remember when I first started having feelings for my now husband. The stronger the feelings got, the more I fought them. After a rough divorce a couple of years prior, I was done with this whole love thing. I was perfectly content with my personal romance with cynicism,…
When it comes to spending time in a hospital, I don’t know many people who find a lot of joy in it. Sure, there are babies being born, and life-saving surgeries being performed, but the thing that happens most in any hospital is waiting. Waiting for the baby to be born, or waiting for the surgery to be over, there’s constantly a lot of waiting going on inside of those sterile walls.Gloria Porter knows the feeling all too well. The 88-year-old woman from Connellsiville, Pennsylvania, recently found herself tucked away inside Excela Frick Hospital, waiting. To pass the time, she…
My niece, McKenzie, was a fun-loving sweetheart. She loved giving hugs. She loved to sing and dance. She was always very smart and studious and could talk her head off about absolutely anything and everything, especially the girly stuff. She was a huge girly girl and loved all things pink, purple, and glitter We have so many beautiful moments together, but our biggest thing we loved to do was wear boots. It was our thing. We wore boots all year round. I’d always take her out to buy new ones, especially when they were on sale. She had boots for…
Senator Shehu Sani explains why a Chinese man stabbed a young Kano girl to deathSenator Shehu Sani has explained why the Chinese man who was arrested in Kano yesterday September 17, stabbed his 23-year-old lover to death. It was reported earlier that the suspect stabbed the divorcee identified as Ummakulsum Sani Buhari to death around 10pm on Friday September 16, shortly after visiting her at her parents’ house located adjacent National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) office. Chinese man ends lady’s life in Kano for turning down his advancesExplaining why the Chinese man stabbed the lady to death,…
It was a little over two and a half years ago, right before I was about to be married I was asked the question, “Are you prepared for what you and your family will experience seeing as how you are marrying a black man?” Being a white girl raised in Salt Lake City, Utah I was offended. The man I was speaking with took notice to my offense and simply said “I don’t mean to hurt you, I just wanted to make sure that you were aware that things will be different than I think you are expecting. Things will…
It felt like a knife to the gut. Shaking, in shock, every breath seemed to twist the knife a little deeper until I felt as though I couldn’t breathe anymore. Oh, I had been hit before, little slaps of reality, every few months. I somehow numbed the pain before letting it do its job, before letting it sink in and hurt enough to do something about it. Anger, sadness, self-doubt, and shame, are what hit me that day I found out about the other woman, but most of all, I felt like such a fool. I will never forget that…
Nigerian devoted Christian lady who recently wed without making up has allegedly dished out advice to ladies and gentlemen She noted that it’s expident that we keep our virginity till marriage without engaging in sexual act, because it please God that we keep our sexual purity, she went further to explain that it’s act of deception that people claims we can have s*x before marriage. According to Her Marriage is a MYSTERYMy mum once told me that marriage is a mystery that no one can demystify but I never understood until the day I got married.So by going to the…
I am a preacher who has risen through the ranks in my church. Sometimes I preach in our other branches, but at our main branch, I am next in command to the head pastor. I am married with two lovely children. One would expect a pastor’s home to be full of warmth and love, not coldness like mine. This coldness is coming from my wife and it’s all my fault. She doesn’t go to church these days, and that’s also my fault. We have been married for six years now. I have tried my best to be a good husband…