Yet another business disappointment. A scheduling conflict caused the postponement of a client’s appointment for two months. “I guess I’m being punished for not loving God enough. I love doing ___________ so much that I must not be loving God enough,” I blurted out to dear, patient Husband. (What would I do without a soul mate to…
Author: Grandma Grace
God Stories
Happy tears welled up in my eyes. I was in shock in a good way. Our lifetime friends were leaving our house. They were already in their running car and I was bidding them goodbye. I said to the husband, “Have as good a time as possible visiting your mom.” To my utter surprise, he…
Spur Each Other On
Years ago we were sitting on our front porch taking a break in the tropical heat chatting with the father of our teenage daughter’s best friend. He was reminiscing about his family’s long years in this primitive third-world country where we now served alongside him. The stories began to flow and I’ve never been the…
Cannibals
The drone of the approaching small airplane drew a crowd of villagers to the dirt airstrip to await its landing. In a remote jungle village, the arrival of the airplane provided a break from the monotony of daily life. . . a curiosity, a diversion, some free entertainment. But when the new-to-the-area pilot climbed down…
Boomerang
Want to be happy? Make someone else happy! Happiness is a boomerang – you send it out to someone and it returns. Think of all those times when it just seemed like a lot of effort to make someone else happy. But afterward, you were happier yourself! We all know that making others happy makes us…
Privilege
They were a despised minority in a third-world country. The father of three died very young, leaving his wife with tiny twin girls and a pre-schooler. The struggling young wife became overwhelmed and lost her sanity. The pre-schooler was taken in by an aunt who cared nothing for her and treated her like a…