Devotionals

  A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Walt and I once ran into an old college mate on the streets of our home town.  We’d been acquaintances on campus, but hadn’t seen each other for years.  At our chance encounter, the man exuded prosperity, from his...

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford  My sister Grace once ordered business envelopes for our father’s publishing company. The salesman for the printing company phoned me.  “Want to check on this order for me?  It seems a little...

A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford There’s a serious drawback to speaking your mind, whether using a podium or a word processor or social media. One fine day, someone is going to quote back to you what you said and hold you accountable for saying it....

  A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford My mother was in the attic sorting out boxes, when her expression suddenly became grave.  I looked into the box and saw five darling baby mice nestled together.  I was charmed.  (I was only four years old, and...

 A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford This week I read a quotation from Helen Keller, the remarkable woman born blind and deaf, who used her life so gloriously for good.  She wrote something remarkable for a blind woman to say: “The loss of sight is...