Mother lay in bed, twisting the sheet in her thin, frail hands.It was the beginning of the Great Depression and things couldn’t have been worse. Daddy had been laid off from his job at the railroad, they were struggling to make their mortgage payments, and with four...
Tapping their feet nervously, three men stood in line, each awaiting an interview for a highly paid job during a time of severe economic recession.Finally, seated before the interviewer, the first man was posed this question. “You are being interviewed for the...
“Don’t worry, honey. I’ll think of something.”With that reassurance from Mother, my seven-year-old sister bounded upstairs to bed, danced a little jig in the hallway and finally settled down for restful sleep. Mother always “thought of something.”Mother stood alone by...
It was Christmas Eve, 1907 and a little girl prayed again for a doll. She had never owned one.Little Alma looked around her small, modest farm house. No decorated tree stood in the corner. No candles burned in the windows. No presents were piled on the table. But the...
The superintendent of a large Christian school was concerned about the disarray he found in so many of the classrooms he visited. Papers were often strewn on the floor, and the students' desks were surrounded by clutter.Feeling strongly that learning could not take...
My father had that mischievous look in his eyes. Even as a ten-year-old, I recognized it and should have been prepared.But I wasn’t.“Do you believe,” he asked with mock sincerity, “that God can do anything?”“Sure, daddy,” I replied enthusiastically. “I believe God can...
I was beyond afraid.I gripped the edge of the church pew until the white knuckles of my thin, eight-year-old hands threatened to burst through my taut skin.Miss Harriet Beardslee, a Christian missionary to India, was retelling her well-known “Tiger Story.” As...