by Marilou Lyons | Jul 10, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
By Elizabeth Rice Handford “Let’s be kinder,” a blogger recently burbled. “Let’s love each other more.” Oh, how right she is! This poor old world desperately needs to see us Christians loving others, caring for the poor, compassionately watching for ways to help...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 10, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford On a Sunday afternoon, when I was 14 years old, I was at my Sunday school teacher’s home, practicing for a Christmas program. She suddenly burst into the room, her voice shaking. “Girls,” she cried, “run home just...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 25, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “I need self-validation*,” a woman said to her friend. “I’m going to confront my mother today.” “What in the world is self-validation?” the friend asked naively. Incredulous, the woman said, “You haven’t heard about...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 9, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “Look down, look down that lonesome road before you travel on, Look up, look up and seek your Maker before Gabriel blows his horn.” —Gene Austin © 1928 Gene Austin’s plaintive song...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 9, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford In 1936 Texas marked the 100th year of their independence with celebrations the whole year long. I was 9 years old. All of us little Texas girls got to wear cowboy boots to school that year. (You do...
