A Simple Message of Gratitude
Today I want to express my appreciation for my mother. I appreciate her taking care of herself and the baby inside her while Daddy was in the service, so that I could be born into the world 72 years ago…
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Open, Honest, and Thankful
Every Sunday I see Miss Katherine sitting on the second pew. Yesterday she greeted me with a smile, as she always does. As I visited with her and those who sit near her, I asked Miss Katherine if she is…
The Costume Box (and Playing Dress-Up in Hawaii)
Enjoy these new pictures Charlene sent me yesterday. ~ Bonnie The ship can not get close to the beach at Kona so we had a wild ride on a tender. What a precious church experience. A gecko came to church,…
Each Day Is a Gift
I never collected Beanie Babies, but I do have a camel and a hippo. The camel looks nice beside the piece of olive wood and replica of a Dead Sea Scroll that Ray’s daddy brought us back from Israel in…
Precious Wilma
In 1977 God sent Ray and me into “a great cloud of witnesses.” We drank in the wisdom of all of them. Two of those witnesses were Wilma and Ervin Davis. When we met them, Ervin was serving as an…
Children with Thankful Hearts
When children learn to talk, one of the first sentences the thoughtful parent teaches them to say is “Thank you,” as in “Tell Mema and Poppy ‘Thank you’ for your present, Elijah” . . . Boy in a Toy Car,…