Proper preparation can make all the difference. I hang gutters for a living, but I cannot just walk up to a house and start nailing gutters on. If there are old gutters, I first have to tear them off. Then I have to measure and mark...
When I was eighteen years old, I decided to get my own place. A friend and I had jobs, so we rented an apartment together. We had all kinds of ideas...
My Christian mother was faithful to bring up her seven children in the knowledge of the Lord. She was the granddaughter of a Methodist minister, so she knew something of what it meant to be a Christian. Although she always wanted to be a Christian, and she would try each day...
When my husband and I lived in our first home, we had a small plaque hanging on the wall that contained the words of today’s focus verse. While doing my household chores, I read those words many times.
I was very happy being a wife, yet after a while...
Pastries are one of my favorite foods, and I do not mind traveling a long way to find a store that makes them exactly the way I like. I found some muffins that were especially tasty at a little pastry...
Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian...so many languages, but so little time! Languages have held a special interest for me throughout much of my life. I never took...
While I was doing errands one afternoon, somewhere between the store and the bank I dropped my checkbook, which contained the check I was planning to deposit. It was difficult not to panic, but I tried to think logically and retrace my steps of that day. Backtracking where ...
On dark nights out on our farm, we spent plenty of time looking at the sky. Some of my favorite memories are evenings when we came home from church in the dark, looking at the moon and stars as we drove the quarter-hour on country roads. When the moon was especially ...
When our daughter was about a year old and began to walk, her feet started to turn in; her toes were pointing toward each other. We were told that it was caused from the position in which she slept. The doctor said the...
We were on a vacation trip through the South several years ago. We attended the Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Then we traveled east through Tennessee, where we made several stops, and then into North Carolina. My wife wanted to fulfill a longtime desire to visit the Great Smoky Mountains.
We stopped at the visitor’s center and picked...