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I started my day today the same way I start every day. I signed onto Facebook and checked Words With Friends. I have a friend that I’ve played that game with for six years—we always have a game going. This morning, Words With Friends had a new message for me, one I’ve never seen. It said my friend had resigned. …

April 10th, 1912. The British passenger liner RMS Titanic leaves Southampton, England on its maiden voyage. On board are 2,224 passengers. One of those passengers is 33-year-old Wallace Hartley, a British violinist who has just been hired to be the bandmaster. Hartley and his fellow passengers have an uneventful voyage for the first four days. But late on the night …

My best friend has moved on and seems to have left me behind, for reasons I don’t understand. I’m in a season of extraordinary physical pain, and my doctors have no answers. I’m facing loss and change. It’s inevitable. It’s necessary. But it’s incredibly hard, and I hate it. People I love are hurting. And I am powerless to change …