Dedicated to Dr. Schauble,
who composed the “lullaby" based on Psalm 46 and honored in this st

In 2003, I had the first honest conversation with another person that I had had in a long time. She asked me what kind of drugs I took and how much I drank. We talked about my desire to end my

Phoenix Rising

By Cassandra Gifford

After a particularly heartbreaking 3 months, I’d begun drinking heavily. I was a single mother of five children, had been illegally ado

It has been said that when I mix beer and thought, I can be dangerous, so I quit drinking. Not for any other reason but the love of the most beautiful girl in the world.

Imagine yourself getting your most favorite thing or experience in your life without the thinkable imagination of the possibility of this thing going away, or suddenly disappearing, or causing you to l

My best friend lies underneath the dogwood tree in my back yard.    She was only seven years old; a beautiful, healthy, playful little girl.  I've heard how rare it is to lose o

How do you move on when you loose that one person in your life? That wall that shielded you from everything that could ever hurt you. How do you begin to recover from the pain that death can bring upon you?

Where’s your Blue Bird?

I approached the bar slowly, wife in front, like a buck making its way through unfamiliar territory. I spotted him, a Switzerland Cowboy nested in and leaning into the

No one knows why things happen. Some say certain events happen for a reason; it is all in God’s great plan. Others may argue that it is only coincidence.

Every day as I grew up I saw my father stick a needle into his arm, I saw my mother loading a bowl, and I sat and watched as their lives quickly evaporated. A day after my family hit rock bottom

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