For many women, the first time we experience joy and pain all wrapped up together is when we give birth to our first child. Jesus understands that. He said: Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her…
God creates one beautiful moment after another all over the earth. The sun rises. The sun sets. Waves crash. Turtles hatch. Lambs nurse. Clouds soar. So many marvelous things are happening all around us that too often we don’t stop…
In this final message in my series on Christmas messages from presidents, I would like to share the 1995 message of President Bill Clinton: The Christmas story is dear and familiar to us all—shepherds and angels, Wise Men and King…
Today I want to share with you the Christmas message President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed in 1935: The spirit of Christmas breathes an eternal message of peace and good-will to all men. We pause therefore on this Holy Night and, laying…
I read The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge many years ago. Yesterday I finished listening to the expanded and annotated edition published in 2021. The Coolidge family authorized this edition, which was edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and coeditor Matthew…
Ray and I have enjoyed visiting several homes of presidents through the years. My parents took me on my first visit to a president’s home when they took me to the Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson, when I was…
