A story I once read told of a man who was on a trip in Jerusalem. He watched as a Jewish man and his family of girls were preparing to cross the road in front of him. The smallest girl fell down behind the rest of the family and then called out, “Abba, Abba!” The father ...
Being past seventy years of age and having a full head of white hair, I find today’s focus verse very intriguing. It says that old age can be a blessing, if we use our time well. This makes me think that while we often quote, “Let no man despise thy youth”...
Sunday morning my husband woke up with a start. He looked at his cell phone and saw that he had slept through the alarm! Upon closer examination, he realized that his phone had changed to daylight...
Many of us have heard about frogs’ unusual nervous systems. If a frog is placed into a glass filled with cold water, and the water is heated very slowly, the frog will not sense the temperature change. As the heat increases, the frog will remain in the water until ...
One Saturday as I was driving along the freeway near our home, I saw a large billboard advertising a multi-state lottery. Knowing that gambling is wrong, I do not follow lottery prize amounts, but the sign had an...
Dreams are not often of any significance, but occasionally one stays in your mind and you wonder if God is trying to tell you something. Recently, I had one that is still stuck in my mind. In it, I squeezed through a door into an extremely confining space that was ...
One of my responsibilities as an employee of a school bus company is to handle phone calls from irate parents. Last week, I received a fairly typical complaint from the mother of a middle school girl. The girl had been given a...
My friend works for a local fruit company and has years of experience in pruning trees, so I asked him to help me trim two ornamental pear trees located in front of my house. Also, I had several chokecherry trees along my fence which needed to be topped out. It was a great...
Not long ago, I decided to bake some cookies and took out my favorite cookie sheets. They are rather beat up, but I like them anyway because the cookies do not stick and the pans are quite large.
Looking at the cookie sheets, my mind went back to the early days of my marriage. One time when we visited my...
A number of years ago, our eighteen-year old son had a tragic skiing accident, and the Lord called him Home. I am thankful that he was a Christian, and I know that he is in Heaven, but we did not expect his life to...