When I was challenged to teach a blind singer to dance I had no idea I was to be the learner.I was a dance teacher for a local college and had been learning a series of new dances to introduce into the communities in the area. My partner and I decided it would be fun...
Psalm 145:9-10 - The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created]. All Your works shall praise You, O Lord, and Your loving ones shall bless You [affectionately and gratefully shall Your saints confess and praise...
Psalm 40:1-2 - I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. (NIV)Suddenly, I was awakened! The sound was scary: vicious winds...
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...
“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...
Several years ago when Rob Yeske was about 18 years old, he was diagnosed with a case of mononucleosis and told to rest and stay home from school for at least a week. Rob was very ill, as it turned out---“a couple of days after being diagnosed, I was waking in a pool...
By the time we arrived in Drumheller, Alberta, we were already mesmerized by the unusual, rugged beauty of the Badlands. "This is the place where they found thousands of dinosaur skeletons." I mentioned to my eager-to-get-out-of-the-car kids."That's nice," was their...