Hope in God: Ebony Nicole Jones was floored when doctors said her baby was not going to make it. Her first son, Hunter, only lived for ten hours. As she grieved her son’s death, she leaned into her belief in Jesus — and she discovered hope in God. “He was beside me,” she writes, “And he is beside me now.”

Lynne Modranksi was preparing to be a grandmother. But when the timing of her grandson’s birth didn’t go as she’d prayed it would, she was reminded that God has bigger plans for a reason.