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SCRIPTURE Psalm 130:2 – Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! THE BIG RED BOW My fifth birthday had been celebrated a few weeks earlier, and each Wednesday evening since cake day had been spent learning the song. Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells. Once a…

SCRIPTURE Isaiah 60:19 – The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night, but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. LIGHT I’ve never been a big fan of the dark. I suppose it started…

SCRIPTURE John 11:40 – Jesus said to [Martha], “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” ENCHANTING A couple of years ago, Bill and I attended a wonderful celebration like no other. The wedding was glorious as they often are, but the reception can be described using…

SCRIPTURE Isaiah 59:9 – Therefore justice is far from us, and deliverance does not reach us; we wait for light, but there is only darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. AMAZING LIGHT Why is there never a lightbulb at my house? That’s not exactly the right question. Why is there never the…

SCRIPTURE Ephesians 5:1-2 – Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. IMPRISONED Cal’s son was kidnapped from his home around the young age of 15. Cal was a deacon and his father was…

SCRIPTURE Ephesians 4:29 – Let no evil talk come out of your mouths but only what is good for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. EDIFYING Edification is not a word I spoke or perhaps even knew before I married my Bill. I did…

SCRIPTURE John 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment. RE-INVENTIONS My granddaddy was an inventor. He experimented with all sorts of things. In his work at the hosiery mill, he created several new systems and machine parts that resulted in patens for his company. Usually, when he had an idea,…

SCRIPTURE Psalm 81:1-2 – Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob. Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. MRS. ELEANOR Mrs. Eleanor was a force to be reckoned with – at least to my teenage brain – but she was not like a…

SCRIPTURE Psalm 81:10 – I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. FED AND WATERED WELL Recently my daughter introduced me to something that has influenced the way I wake up in the morning and the way I…

SCRIPTURE Ephesians 2:19-22 – So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone; in him the whole structure is joined together and grows…

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