Diego Silva

Richard Byrd was a polar explorer who spent five months alone in a shack in the Antarctic in 1934. During a brutal storm where temperatures hit -80°F , Byrd was nearly killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty stove. He was weak, freezing, and completely cut off from the world. He spent days obsessing over the weather, the equipment, and his chances of survival. He realized that his frantic worry was actually draining the physical energy he needed to survive. He wrote in his journal:...

I have a friend from college who endured a nightmare scenario. She and her husband were raising a healthy, vibrant two-year-old son who was the light of their lives. Then, in a single heartbreaking instant, everything changed. The husband was backing out of the driveway, unaware that his little boy had wandered into the front yard. In a tragic accident, he struck the child, ending a life that had only just begun. That split-second accident cost the boy his life and plunged the couple into...

In my 20s, I was certain that my theological ideas were correct. I was baptized and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church at seventeen, and within two years, I was studying to become a pastor. The conviction that I had “the truth” and that I belonged to God’s “true people” gave me a sense of purpose and identity.