This wasn't anything that could strike terror in my heart more than the news of an upcoming teacher's strike, and when this particular strike was actually illegal, it made me very upset. I didn't feel comfortable striking in the best of times, but there was no way my...
I was nearing the end of my teaching career. I only had another few months before my scheduled retirement. With a new principal who I didn't know well, how could I continue to make a difference for the Lord at my school? This dilemma was augmented by the fact that my...
Over the past several weeks, I have walked through my long teaching career and highlighted the different lessons God had taught me through the various schools I served at. Retirement, however, was only weeks away. I wanted to do something more for the Lord at this, my...
"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend." (Proverbs 27:17 NLT)An old African proverb says, "If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito."But I had.My maternal grandmother, Grandmammy, lived in an old...
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." (Romans 1:16a KJV) Do you ever wonder how many spiritually lost people you pass each day? It was December 2018. I needed to run to the store to...
In this, our first gardening attempt, my husband and I planted two summer squash plants: A yellow squash plant and a zucchini plant. Interestingly, they didn’t start bearing squash at the same rate. The yellow plant began first, and we are still having trouble keeping...
The following is a true account, published as narrated by an evangelist of Friends Missionary Prayer Band, namely Samuel.Samuel began his work for the day not knowing that God was going to do something beyond the imagination of a common person.He was waiting in the...
