by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 28, 2014 | mercy
We get pretty caught up with numbers in our lives. Dollars in the bank. Pounds on the scale. Followers on Twitter. It can be overwhelming. So I looked to see what the Bible says about the numbers game. The scriptures do mention numbers. 3000 people added to the church...
by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 24, 2014 | mercy
We’ve had a major move at our house this week, and I didn’t have to pack a single box. It is all my husband’s fault, of course. We were chatting last week and I mentioned (again) that we needed to go to the East Coast this summer. “I need to do...
by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 20, 2014 | mercy
Next week is the third birthday of our fifth grandson. He lives 900 miles away. Sounds like a sixth grade word problem, doesn’t it? If you are trying to figure out how long it will take a train traveling at 120 miles an hour to get to his house, just let me tell...
by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 17, 2014 | mercy
One of the hardest scenes to write in Thirty Days to Glory was the one where Catherine gets trapped at home in an ice storm. No heat, no electricity, no telephone. (She hadn’t moved to the digital age, yet.) I actually felt her despair in that scene, because I...
by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 12, 2014 | mercy
Some of the greatest love stories you’ll ever read are true. The happily-ever-after part is usually hard-fought and only partly-true. But a great love can last a lifetime and be mostly happy. Consider this one: Rahab the Harlot. Better known in our day as a...
