Devotionals
2021
June 7, 2021
Why Is the World So Blurred? A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Sitting in the dentist's chair, years ago, I heard my dentist say, "Libby, you have three new cavities." I wailed, "Why? I haven't had a cavity in years! I've had to get trifocals and I...
May 31, 2021
Do What You Trained to Do A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford The words I heard the Birmingham approach controller use were ominous. "Sigmet," I heard him say. ("Sigmet" means there's really bad news about the weather.) "A severe thunderstorm is...
May 24, 2021
When Your Body Is All Worn Out A Gentle Reminder from Elizabeth Rice Handford I have a dear friend who earns her living by cleaning houses and businesses. We don't see each other very often because of her work schedule. She's alone in the world and depends on what she...
May 17, 2021
Wasting Time on People? By Whose Standard? A Reminiscence with Elizabeth Handford I found great joy in being a pastor's wife. How good it was to help people however they needed me, for spiritual counsel or material help. Walt once heard me counseling a new mother over...
May 10, 2021
I Meant to Say, "That Was Just Perfect!" A Plea for Understanding Others from Elizabeth Rice Handford Years ago Walt and I went on a breath-taking tour of Israel. Our bus stopped at a restaurant in Jerusalem for lunch. We were seated at a large table with perhaps 20...
May 3, 2021
Courage: The Most Important Virtue?A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford If ever someone earned the right to talk about courage, surely Maya Angelou did. She endured the kind of heart-wrenching abuse that would have made most of us give up in despair....
April 26, 2021
Comfort Food for the Soul A Word of Comfort with Elizabeth Rice Handford Yesterday morning our youngest son lost his precious wife to cancer. No matter how long I have been a Christian, and no matter how sure I am that we will see her again in Heaven, I am grieved by...
April 19, 2021
Looking for a Loophole in the Promise You Made? A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Looking for a loophole in the promise you made? You can always find one. A teenager trapped in his automobile after an accident prayed, "God, if you get me out of...
April 12, 2021
Keeping a Promise When It Hurts A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Way back in the neolithic age (well, really, in the 1950's) in Wheaton, Illinois, I managed a Christian book store for my father. To promote the store, I planned a gala children's...
April 5, 2021
Daddy's Office Door Is Always Open to His Children Thoughts on Jesus' Final Words on the Cross with Elizabeth Rice Handford Margi knew her daddy was a very busy man because lots of people needed him. They called him "Pastor Handford." Mother called him "Walt." But to...
