Eileen Benthal

Forgiveness is a vitally important part of a happy, healthy life. Recent studies on the effects of forgiveness on our health have confirmed that an inability to forgive causes excess stress hormones and depletes the immune system, leaving a person at risk for developing chronic and life-threatening diseases.

Riverhead High School senior and NJROTC cadet Anthony Mammina has had quite an amazing year.

One week after being awarded the Meritorious Achievement Award, the highest award a cadet can receive, for his life-saving actions at a track meet in September, Anthony was in the operating room at NYU Medical Center undergoing brain surgery, hoping to alleviate the seizures that have affected him since he was five years old.

The poetic wisdom of Ecclesiastes reminds us that change is a part of life. God has made everything appropriate in its time, and there is a time, and a purpose, for every event under heaven. Life on Purpose by Eileen Benthal.

The poetic wisdom of Ecclesiastes reminds us that change is a part of life. God has made everything appropriate in its time, and there is a time, and a purpose, for every event under heaven. Life on Purpose by Eileen Benthal.

In a Rwandan woman's compelling story of survival against all odds, we witness how God recycled the pillage of genocide and reused it to heal human hearts.

Yes, faith can move mountains...Eileen's late-night vision in the pediatric intensive care unit is shared by Johanna in a dream and an Epiphany miracle takes place... Life on Purpose by Eileen Benthal

Today is the 6th day of Christmas! It is still entirely appropriate to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! At our house, we celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, culminating on the Feast of Little Christmas, or Epiphany on Jan. 6. Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family.