
From Fear to Fulfillment
He was deathly afraid of dogs—so what made him think he could be a professional trainer?
In 1978, author Loren Eiseley published an essay called “The Star Thrower.” It recounts a beach walk by a narrator...
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He was deathly afraid of dogs—so what made him think he could be a professional trainer?


A child’s anxiety over being away from home is eased by a special Bible verse.

Diabetes ran in her family. Her mother died of it. Still, she refused to face the facts.

They say the Today show’s Bob Dotson has been in more motel rooms than the Gideon Bible. Find out what keeps him on the move.

A winged messenger assured a blood donor that her belated brother appreciated her efforts.

At five years old, she saw her name written across the sky and felt the call of the clouds.

She wanted her son’s marriage to be better than hers had been. Could she do the one thing she was most afraid of?

Was a nursing home the best choice for her mother? Her brain said yes, but her heart resisted.

On the TV show Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove, Andie MacDowell plays a judge in a town not unlike the one where she grew up.

A visionary gardener receives the recognition he has dreamed of.

In this story from July 1958, Doris Day shares the sense of calm that faith brought to her marriage, career and life.
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