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Welcome to the Impossible
The place where “there’s no way forward” meets “God is enough.” In the rarified air of the unknown, we walk with feet of clay, scale crags on bloodied knees, and reach up to... READ MORE
Living the Impossible
Impossible. That’s what they told us. Oh, they used different words at different hospitals, but they all said the same thing. After Kevin’s devastating spinal cord injury sustained in a fall, his situation... READ MORE
Charlie Gard: The Conscience of a Nation
He lies in a hospital room, his little eyes mostly closed. Although he is nearly a year old, he seems so small. Like millions of others, I only know Charlie because his picture... READ MORE
The House That Grace Built
In a day, our world changed forever. It was nineteen years ago this month that our son Kevin broke his neck in a fall and sustained a devastating spinal cord injury. It’s one... READ MORE
What One “Useless Life” Taught Me
Just an old woman. She lay against the stark white sheets of the gurney, her face gray and her hands bent awkwardly inward. A series of strokes had long-silenced her lilting Southern twang,... READ MORE
The Gift of Existence
It would have been so much easier to die. Kevin Thorson lay paralyzed in the grass of a church lawn in Canada. Moments earlier, he was practicing backflips with a friend when he... READ MORE
Why I’m Not Fighting to Save Babies: Guest Post by Susanne Maynes
I’m honored to have writer and counselor Susanne Maynes with us here at Every Life Matters. Susanne has worked at a pregnancy resource center for eight years. Her heart for God and her... READ MORE
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Knights in White Satin: Taking Out the Dragon
Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. – James 4:7 The princesses are everywhere. Most grandparents in the United States have probably wandered through the bewildering array of Barbie royalty at some point in their search … Continued
The Shepherd Family
It was just a shopping day with her mother and eighteen-month-old daughter Laura. Linda was driving the car that fateful day after Christmas when an unguarded moment sent them careening into the path of a minivan at sixty miles an … Continued
The Angels of Woolrich
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 The last public images of Drummer Lee Rigby alive show him ordering take-out at one of his favorite haunts. Two days later, … Continued
This Old House
The Master spoke, but I scarcely heard Above the noise and the din Of hurrying feet and hammer-stroke I was building a house for Him. Then He took me aside and He taught me this While earthly things grew dim … Continued
Molly the Pony
Molly was one of the many animals displaced by the wrath of hurricane Katrina in 2005. She was taken in by Kaye Harris, but she suffered an added tragedy when another displaced animal, a pit bull, mauled her on her … Continued
The Battle for Renewal
Then He showed a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, … Continued
Rooted in Reality, Part 3: We are De Branch, Not De Vine
Remember He is de vine, and you are de branch. -Keith Green I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do … Continued
Rooted in Reality, Part 2: What Lies Are Sinking You?
What really matters is what happens in us, not to us. -James W. Kennedy Scientists now say that a series of slits, not a giant gash, sank the Titanic. The opulent, 900-foot cruise ship sank in 1912 on its first … Continued
Rooted in Reality: Building Character, Part 1
You will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:16 Several years ago, the Dallas Morning News reported that an elderly North Dallas couple, the Davenports, were sitting at home one quiet evening, enjoying a delicious meal. As they finished … Continued