A dear friend and I were planning a baby shower last week. In an effort to include some of the young girls in our church, I asked a twelve-year-old to bake/cook anything she wanted to contribute to the luncheon/shower. The next day, she told me she would bake cookies. What I didn’t know was…
Tag: encouragement
Kindness
One of our adult children had a tricky surgery last Thursday. On the morning of the surgery, while our son and his wife were anxiously waiting for him to be taken into the OR, I opened my phone texts to read the Bible verses for the day. You see, each morning, dear husband’s brother sends…
A Bad Day
Remember reading the children’s book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” to your kids or grandkids? Poor Alexander had a lot of unpleasant things happen to him in one very bad day. People and things seemed to be working against him. This caused him to complain, feel defeated and angry, and…
Forward
Watch out! You’re a sitting duck! Christmas is past and you’re looking ahead to the new year. That makes you a target! As you look back at your year and set goals for the next, you’ll hear that familiar voice in your head. “You’ll never be able to do that. You’ve tried this before and…
A Little Immigrant
This is the story of a Russian immigrant family- the oldest of their three daughters was only 8 years old when they arrived in the U.S. They had been granted asylum in Israel when they first fled Russia. Through the help of Amnesty International, an American church was contacted with the request for a sponsor…