Henry David Thoreau said: The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Decisions, decisions. Every time we make an exchange we make a decision. Economics is about decisions. Should Company A make widgets or thingamajigs? How much…
Today is our painful anniversary of when we said goodbye for now to our precious older daughter. It has been a week of reliving a year ago. On Sunday evenings, Ray has been teaching from the book of Daniel. This…
. . . Thank You! Thank you for reading Daily Encouragement. Writing it is one of my greatest joys. I would like to explain why this is true. Finding Encouragement from God’s Word After publishing my first post on Monday,…
Ray and I are now blessed to have ten grandchildren on Earth. Our youngest was born in February of 2024. Minutes after she was born, we learned that she has Down syndrome. From that first day, I knew that she…
Ray and I have a friend in Mississippi who has packed more life experiences and lived through more challenges during her decades than seem possible for one person: loss of her father as a child, boarding school as a student,…
When I saw this pretty painting on Saturday, it reminded me of an encounter I had earlier that day in a T.J. Maxx. The Happy Mother by Max Bohm, 1913 Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mary…
