Devotionals

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford St. Patrick’s grave at Downpatrick How exciting it is to find out that what you thought was just a pleasant fairy tale about a brave hero turns out to be genuine, satisfying historic truth. That’s what happens when...

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Handford If you are a mathematician you already know what a mobius strip is. Since I’m not a mathematician, and have no hope of becoming one, the idea of a mobius strip facinates me. Take a strip of paper, hold one end of it,...

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Years ago my husband and I were walking through the Ford Museum in Dearborn when he stopped me by a huge Farmall F-20 tractor. “There,” Walt said, “that’s the tractor I bought last week. They’ll deliver it next...

We agree. don’t we, that a boss doesn’t hire a salesman because he’s handsome, but because he’s an effective salesman. A mother doesn’t spend her time on making the house pretty so her neighbors will be impressed. Rather she creates a home, a refuge, for her husband...

Your Valentine from the God who loves you dearly Too often our concept of God is that He is an angry, unloving despot leaning over the battlements of Heaven, watching us with an eagle eye, hoping to catch us doing something wrong so He can zap us in glee with a 2 X 4...

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I’ve been cleaning out my clothes closet this week and came across the Interim sweater I wore in the days when my husband Walt and I were chaplains for employees and patients at Interim Healthcare in Greenville, SC....

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford In Indiana, mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to kiss other humans. Why did Kansas pass a law, “If two trains meet on the same track, neither shall proceed until the other has passed”? Obviously,...

A Lament from Elizabeth Rice Handford I remember my zoology professor at Wheaton, Dr. Russell Mixter, teaching us about God’s marvelous design of the human hand with its “opposing thumb.” Ever since I broke my right thumb in two places in a fall last month, oh, my...

“Goblin Mode”: A New Term for an Old Bad Habit A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Every year the Oxford Dictionary editors consider what new words ought to be added to their dictionary. This year 300,000 people voted to choose the new word, and...

My Sister Jessie Is with Jesus Elizabeth Rice Handford shares comfort in mourning       Photo by Tom Kilpatrick It’s hard for me to tell you I lost my sister and dear friend this week. I was tempted simply to choose a Scripture about Heaven with you,...