The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance (Psalm 16:6 NIV). On a hot […]

  Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful (Colossians 4:1 NIV). Another treasured memory from my childhood is the way my mother […]

 Last Tuesday the promise on my World Challenge calendar was Psalm 50:15. Picking up my pen, I journaled the forty-year-old memory it […]

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things. (Matthew 12:35). One of my favorite memories […]

Last week we babysat five-year-old, boy/girl twins* for a friend. One of them wanted to play with a small basketball he’d found. Not […]

My girlhood home in Grantsville, Maryland, where I lived for most of my childhood.* The Lord said, “Before they call I will […]

Beginning on Monday, February 13, and continuing every other Monday when I don’t do a blog, I will post a devotional from my autobiographical […]

In my last blog, I mentioned that I have fibromyalgia. Those of you who understand that condition can imagine that finding ways […]

 When Donn and I went to Japan for a year in 2003*, one of my responsibilities was to teach the conversational English […]

 A line from a song came to me this morning that always reduces me to tears: “The darling of heaven, crucified.” Jesus, […]