Looking forward to Christmas 1995, to me, described a paradox. How can one enjoy Christmas when their loving spouse recently passed away from cancer, and yet Christmas is a time for celebration...I had a friend, recently divorced, who was going through his first...
Having been raised/programmed with all the principals of a virtuous woman, Granny also lived in our home (a survivor of the Great Depression). Additionally, with four siblings, eight to nine people lived in our house at any given time. Parents being in mission work,...
"You're getting a new coat," Brad was excited for his older brother that fall. "Yes, and you're getting mine," his older brother stated right back.It seemed that both boys were growing so fast. Craig was two years older than Brad and already taller than my 5'6" frame...
Every Christmas has a moment - or moments if you are lucky - when the spirit of the season wraps itself around your heart and you feel you have experienced just a little of what Christmas is all about.Two Minutes Later: Sometimes you have to look hard for that magic...
Last night while at a restaurant a friend and I were leaving where we had just eaten. While walking by I noticed an African American woman with 2 children praying and saying grace in public over their food. My friend Linda Hill and I went to discuss something and I...
WOW! Was all I could say as I stood there marveling at the display of toy trains. I had never seen such a display. Dozens of them running all directions. Over miniature mountains, through tunnels, stopping here and there to play like they filled with water, load...
"In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" - Acts 20:35Wallace E. Johnson was born in 1902 into a poor farm family in...