For a few days, I want to share with you scenes from the life of prolific blind hymnwriter Fanny Crosby, as presented by the Homeschool Dramatic Society earlier this month in Cookeville, Tennessee. How I love being with these children…
Again, Ray and I are deeply grateful for your fervent prayers and your kind encouragements. He is more tired than usual, while being faithful, grateful, and upbeat. He has finished four radiation treatments with 22 to go. We are enjoying…
Last Tuesday Ray and I took an especially foggy walk in the early morning. The morning had begun pleasantly with an email from my friend Sara, whom I have known since I was in college, and texts from my friend…
We Americans admire people from humble beginnings who achieve success in fields such as business or politics or entertainment. Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and James Garfield were all born in log…
My mother was an accomplished seamstress. I was eight years old when she began teaching me to sew on the sewing machine. She helped me make this apron for a 4-H project. When our older daughter, Bethany, got married, Mother…
When I was a little girl, Daddy used to ask me sometimes: “Charlene, do you know what you’re doing?” I must have been one of those dreamy kind of children who need to be called back to reality every now…
