I love a quotation from Michael W. Smith’s song Friends – “A friend is a friend forever … if the Lord’s the Lord of them.“ Nevertheless, over time we tend to lose contact with friends from our childhood...
It was a normal Saturday before Christmas and I headed out to do errands. My husband was home pulling decorations out of the attic to delight the grand kids. We planned to go to the movies when finished with our tasks. Around dinnertime, I...
Nine years ago on Christmas Eve, our family arrived home from China with our newest member – an almost four-year-old, profoundly deaf son we had just adopted. Because of severe language deprivation, he was quite delayed in communication...
A terrible muscle cramp in my right calf woke me in the early morning hours of November 12th. I stretched and the pain eased enough for me to fall back to sleep. When getting ready for work, I was in enough pain that it caused me to...
In March, I learned from my boss about an important meeting to be conducted by our CEO. That meeting brought an announcement that our company would be restructured significantly. While I fully agreed that the change was...
When my father’s second wife passed away at the end of 2016, we had no idea that her will (as well as my father’s) had not been updated since they first married in the early 1980’s. My dad has had to spend many, many hours...
On November 11, 2017, we welcomed a beautiful baby girl into our family. She was four weeks early after an uneventful pregnancy and a delivery that went very smoothly. Scarlette Jean was perfect! The day we were scheduled to be discharged from...
What some people see as a problem, others see as an opportunity. And what an opportunity we have been given to step out in faith this year! My wife and I have worked to reach unsaved students with the gospel on a major Texas college...
At Thanksgiving in 2015, my husband and I decided to do something different to express our gratitude to God: handing out meals to the homeless community in San Francisco, California. At that time, we lived close by. With the...
I have prayed a simple prayer almost every day for the last 25 years -- that God would use me to make a difference in the lives of other people and to further His kingdom. That simple prayer has had amazing results. I have always...
