We met Loren and Berniece when our family first arrived in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, for Ray to serve as the new preacher with their congregation. Loren and Berniece showed us again and again what it means to be servants. When we…
Our small church continues its ministry to neighborhood children. These days our daughter Mary Evelyn is helping to prepare them for a patriotic concert the week of the 4th of July. Last night we practiced singing and signing “God Bless…
The first time George Herbert Walker Bush jumped out of an airplane was during World War II. That time he jumped because his plane was shot down during a battle with the Japanese. Bush has parachuted a handful of times…
Our family has two things to celebrate this coming Sunday. Not only is it Father’s Day; it is also my husband’s birthday. Ray was born on Father’s Day sixty-two years ago. What a precious Father’s Day present he was that…
Daddy was twenty-one years old when his youngest baby sister was born. He loved babies, especially his baby sister, Emily Camille. A year and a half later, my mother gave birth to me and Daddy had a baby of his…
“I won’t ever forget this day.” That’s what Lisa’s brother told their mother after Austin’s homeschool graduation on Saturday. After Lisa shared this sweet quote with me yesterday, Ray and I talked about how he probably had never experienced anything…
