When the Cradle Is Empty
Walking Through Grief After Miscarriage Man to Man By Tim Howington (research curated by AI) My wife was not very far along, but we had waited almost 10 years to have a child of our own. The pain of childlessness was bad, but we weren’t quite prepared for miscarriage. Just getting started. Nowhere near the…
The Daughter Who Remembered (Part 3/3 of Ho Chi Minh Series)
Click HERE to Download By the time the sun climbed over the river’s bend, An was already on her second basket of ginger. She sat just behind her father’s stall, a low stool beneath her and her hands working quietly. Her younger brother, Khai, now tall enough to carry his own weight, stacked limesbeside her.…
The Place Where the Water Bends (Part 2/3 of Ho Chi Minh Series)
Click HERE to Read More Before the delta, there was the city. Narrow alleys. Faded walls. A child’s laughter that echoed. A shutters too brittle to close properly. They had lived in Saigon long enough for the neighbors to forget when they had arrived, but not long enough for the government to stop watching. The…
Lost in Ho Chi Minh City (Part 1/3 of Ho Chi Minh Series)
Click HERE to download a copy of Lost in Ho Chi Minh City. Here is a sneak peek of the short story. Chapter 1: Before the Silence Before the tanks rolled through the gates and the city changed its name, Saigon had a rhythm—a rhythm of market chatter and scooter horns, of children’s laughter skipping…
You Will Be My Martyrs
Jesus didn’t say, “You’ll be My marketing reps.” He didn’t say, “You’ll be My content creators.” He said, “You will be My witnesses.” And in Greek, that word is martyres. Sound familiar? Acts 1:8 is the last recorded sentence Jesus speaks before ascending to the right hand of the Father. It’s not a throwaway line.…
Is it God’s Will that the Guy/Gal I Voted for did not get Elected?
Republished from the presidential election in 2008… Republished from the presidential election in 2012… Republished from the presidential election in 2016… Republished for the presidential election in 2020… Republished for the presidential election in 2024… God is not depressed on election night because His candidate did not win. HIS CANDIDATE ALWAYS WINS! I have never…
Part 4: Seeds on Good Soil
When I was growing up, I got an opportunity to live with my Grandma Sasser. Her name was Ruda and she is one of the great influences of my life. She was born in 1903 and I was born in 1962. Almost 60 years separated us but we were good friends. Her youngest daughter-…
Part 3: Seeds Among the Thorns
The curse of being the oldest child is that sometimes the weight of the world is on your shoulders. I was talking with a friend of mine years ago and he commented, “man you sure seem to be weighted down with your responsibilities.” Guilty. My folks divorced when I was 10 or so in the…
Part 2: Seed on Rocky Soil
Infatuation is a funny thing. Here is a great definition- an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something. Example- “he had developed an infatuation with the girl”. I briefly remember my first “girlfriend”. Her name was Carol. I was in the sixth grade and minding my own business hanging out with the…
Part 1: Seeds on the Road
by Tim Howington Years ago, I spent the summer in Turkey. We were on a mission trip working with Iranian refugees who had flooded Turkey at the height of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. We spent our summer just making friends and sharing the love of Christ with these lovely people who found themselves…
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