Remember when churches had organs—pipe or electronic? They were often the mainstay of corporate worship. They still exist in some places, but not like in years past. My husband served many years ago as a music minister in a church that was located just outside a major American military base. Well, on some Sunday evenings, […]
Wisdom, Montana—Population 132—Elevation 6,000+feet. Last week, we were in Wisdom with some friends who live several miles away. I wondered, while there, how the town got its name. When I got home, I found out that Lewis and Clark got to this part of the “Great Unknown” (basically anything west of the Mississippi) and found […]
I feel like I’m invisible sometimes—well, maybe more often than sometimes. I’ve walked up to an automatic door and had it not open for me. I’ve tried to use a motion-sensitive faucet and towel dispenser in a restroom with no response whatsoever. And with people I know, I can walk past them, and they don’t […]
There’s a great story in 2 Kings 7 about some lepers who sat outside the city gate day after day, existing on whatever crumbs they could beg. As outcasts because of their disease, they were not allowed inside. It seems that the city (Samaria, capital of Israel at the time) was surrounded by an enemy […]
Remember when we used to put real film into real cameras? Those little rolls of celluloid that had “leaders” that you must load correctly into the camera, otherwise they wouldn’t wind right? And sometimes we realized that we had a few more frames left on a roll that we didn’t want to waste, so we […]
Mrs. Woodham was my second-grade teacher. She was kind and patient and would answer even the most childish questions. She was smart and she knew how to impart to her second graders the things they needed to know from the textbook and from many other sources. And when we disobeyed direct orders, she disciplined us. […]
I almost cried when I saw them. I did do an audible gasp right there in the Winn Dixie. Imagine, me, a grown woman of advanced age ecstatic to see—unfrosted blueberry Pop Tarts. For years I have been searching store shelves and even the internet to find these delicious to-go breakfast pastries that I ate […]
Late 18th century British missionary to India, William Carey, translated during his life the entire Bible into six different languages and interpreted parts of it into 29 more languages and dialects. He was relentless in pursuit of his calling—to minister to people in a spiritually dark place. His life was not easy by any stretch of […]
When was the last time you were looking for something and ended up finding something else—maybe something you thought was lost? I know I have. We were watching a TV show recently on historical world events. One of the topics, called “The Age of Discovery,” was about “The Silk Road.” Basically The Silk Road was […]
In my last blog post, I said I had not seen the fox that some say is roaming our neighborhood. And no, I still have not seen it. Yet. However, I see other wildlife regularly here in our community. There is a small lake at the entrance to the subdivision and, even in the dead […]