What a great feast we had at Thanksgiving! Turkey, dressing, scalloped potatoes, corn, sugared carrots, salad, homemade bread, and of course, pumpkin pie. After our Thanksgiving meal we had so much turkey left over, we cut it up and made soup with noodles and chicken broth. It was delicious and we used up our left over […]
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee. Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail. Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff’s gigantic tail. Noble […]
I recently wrote about Moving On and Cleaning House where I shared that I was ending a life time of teaching and assigning my years of notes to the recycle bin. Before I could get the waste can out to the recycle bin in the garage, a young woman who teaches and preaches asked me to […]
When I was a young girl just learning to read, my primary storybook was the Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible for Young and Old. Originally published in 1904 it was the complete Bible story including the Old Testament and the New Testament. Unlike most of today’s Bible Storybooks for children, this book was a continuous narrative of the […]
He was born in a West African country. His mother died shortly after his birth. Grandmother brought him and his twin sister to an orphanage seeking help when she could no longer take care of them. That is how he came into our lives. What hopes and dreams we had as we began to support our daughter […]
What happens when you take an American teenager away from her comfortable home and set her down in a totally unfamiliar environment? That was the question my husband and I faced when our youngest daughter was 15. We had a chance to move to the Philippines and teach at a local Bible school in Iloilo City. While we […]
I am now into my third year of retirement. My list of “things to do when I retire” was quite a long one. Type all my husband’s sermons (from 30 years of ministry) and get them organized according to subject and/or scripture. Check – done! Organize all the pictures, school papers and drawings of my daughters that […]
Recently I shared in Words to Build a Life On how I have found the Bible a source of strength and hope in difficult times. As I begin a new year, I have been thinking about those verses that have been so meaningful to me. John 3:16 – For this is how God loved the […]
He was 15 when he came into my life. A young widow with two young daughters, I knew nothing about raising little boys and certainly nothing about raising teenage boys. But when I married my husband we had an agreement: Take me – take my kids! We started our journey together as friends. He had […]
“We as a community of friends are gathered here in God’s presence to witness Paul and Barbara’s renewal of commitment to one another and to ask God’s continued blessings on them. Marriage, like our creation as men and women owes its existence to God. It is His will and purpose that a husband and wife […]
We take for granted our freedom to pick up our Bible, head to our car on Sunday morning and walk into church without any fear of being killed, or hauled off to prison. Everywhere I look in my town I also see Jewish centers, Muslim mosques and even Hindu temples. On their religious days, there […]
The following is taken from the book “The Hole in Our Gospel’ written by the president of World Vision, Richard Stearns. It speaks much better than I can of our need to make a difference. I have expressed my thoughts on this topic in other posts: What is on Your Menu for the Christmas Meal? and […]
For days all we heard on the cable news was concern about the Ebola crisis. Then – suddenly nothing! Why no news? We Americans have such short attention spans and the news media seems to be able to only concentrate on one news item at a time. Whenever something shocking or dramatic happens, it is […]
This Thanksgiving the crowd around my table will be smaller than it used to be. Children grow up – jobs take them far away. Others have in-laws whose turn it is to host them. Still – I have much to be thankful for. For those family members who will be with me on Thanksgiving. For all […]
