My Menorah Miracle
God sometimes hides a welcome wake-up call and a special blessing, in the most routine and boring things, like a meeting with your insurance agent!
Channa Coggan
Channa Coggan
Emuna: A Welcome Shabbat Guest
Our emuna is tested to the max while traveling. As Shabbat quickly approached, she was suddenly in a guest room without one piece of furniture…
Life Lessons at the Keyboard
One writer learns valuable life lessons, as well as tools to apply to personal prayer and personal growth.
A Test of Trust
Our true level of emuna is revealed only in "crunch time" - will we pass the test?
Uman: The Ultimate Cleansing
I literally saw a wash of colors cascade down behind my closed eyes from my crown to my heart. It felt like yet another rinse cycle in Hashem’s gigantic washing machine...
My Burning Bush Moment
We ate matzot on Passover and bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwiches on Shabbat. Accentuating our similarities with general Santa Barbara society was our family's major objective...
Hashem’s Messengers
The ideology of “rugged individualism” of our birth culture is ingrained deep within our thinking, so deep in fact, that it takes years of hard work to bypass…
Hashem’s Curriculum
Just as each class in an academic curriculum is essential to fulfilling the course requirements, so too each of Hashem’s creations is essential to fulfilling His purpose...
Sweet Surrender
To surrender or not to surrender is a choice that manifests itself in all aspects of our lives: with our spouses and our children; at the office; on the roadways...
Hashem’s Tapestry
Coincidence is a term synonymous to blindness, for it completely fails to see the beautiful weave of Divine Providence in Hashem's exquisite tapestry...
Emuna and Healing
In daily prayer I began asking Hashem for help in making His will my will. I soon realized that proper surrender requires me to give in, rather than give up...
Healing and Emuna
From waiting for medications, to waiting for a doctor’s visit, life in the hospital is a test of emuna; thanks to the "Garden of Healing", I was able to pass it...