Honoring Miss Amly and Sgt. York
The best-known American hero of World War I was Alvin C. York from Pall Mall, Tennessee. My parents took my brother and me there to visit his grist mill years ago. Ray and I later took our children. One of…
Month August 2013
Good Gifts 2
This morning I was thinking about what I shared with you yesterday and realized that I left out some things I wanted to say. Let’s talk more about giving good gifts. Yesterday I talked mainly about things that cost money. Parents…
Good Gifts 1
As I stood at the bathroom sink getting ready for the day, I was thinking about ways we can bless other people and ways that we can hurt them. Two of Jesus’ teachings came to mind. I sat down at…
Home
According to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Home is the nicest word there is.” Pa, Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace moved often and lived in several states, but Pa and Ma gave their girls that secure place called home. When the red-checked…
Dorris, the Puppeteer
I met Dorris when we moved to Urbana, Illinois, for Ray to preach. As a young mother in my early thirties, I didn’t know her long before I realized, “That’s what I want to be like when I am old.”…
Lessons from a Pleasant Morning
One morning last week, I ate my breakfast on the porch. A gentle, soaking rain fell around me. Across the field fog rose from behind the trees that line the river. At this time of transition with fall only a few…