Paula Veloso Babadi writes about the memoir-craft principle that led a niece who barely knew her grandmother to finally meet her—through the pages of a book.

Tom Medlar shares some fascinating stories of his work as a psychotherapist and gives insight into how to differentiate between symptoms of mental illness and a robust and true spirituality.

Janet Tamez reflects on "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa, and the unexpected ways stories can offer refuge. What begins as a reader’s envy of a character’s dreamlike escape to a Tokyo bookstore becomes a meditation on rest, healing, and the embrace God offers when we are weary.

Paula Veloso Babadi reflects on her English mother’s child-like trust in God — and what twenty-six days of home hospice taught her about waiting on Him when nothing makes sense.