Better is One Day in Your Courts

A couple of our grandsons did a little interpretive worship the other night at church. We were on the back row in the far corner. It is an easy place to check out, especially if you are too short to see over the mob of heads in front of us. So, Jesse and Peter decided...

What I Love about Valentine’s Day

Chocolate. Need I say more? Construction paper hearts with paper doily centers. “You Rock Like a Mock” and other messages from my grandchildren. A chance to be mushy in the office. (with my boss, who is also my husband) Flowers (and the frantic men lined...

Time to Dig a Little More

Reuben has come home from New York. Catherine and Elmer have returned from Austin. And none of them found a home in those places. They aren’t actually relatives of mine, but they might as well be. They are characters in two of my novels. They have been a part of...

A First Response

Picture this: the long-awaited Messiah has been walking through the country side healing diseases, casting out demons, raising the dead, and calming the storms for three years. Finally, He sits down with his friends one night at the greatest Feast of the year. The...

Calling all Eight Year Olds

Josiah was eight years old when he became king of Israel. He is famous for being a great king who brought revival to the land. That part didn’t actually happen until he was twenty-six. But, some kind of foundation must have been laid in the eight-year-old that...