by Marilou Lyons | Dec 12, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Christmas Meditation with Elizabeth Rice Handford It was late October, and I was delighted to read that the Orionid meteor shower would be visible again in the Carolina sky that night, with perhaps as many as 20 “falling stars” an hour. I got up in the middle of the...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 5, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Joe DiMaggio still holds the MLB record for his 56-game hitting streak in 1941. His motivation to play well is interesting: “There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time or the last time. I owe...
by Marilou Lyons | Nov 27, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I have a dear friend, a high school boy, who is interested in flying. So I invited his family and another family to dinner. The husband in that family is a seasoned professional pilot and earnest Christian, and I...
by Marilou Lyons | Nov 20, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford It had been discovered that a child in the fourth grade at a Christian school—nobody knew who—had head lice. So everybody in school had to be examined by the school nurse for those blood-sucking critters. “It’s...
by Marilou Lyons | Nov 15, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Gratitude from Elizabeth Rice Handford Back in 2006, Joy Martin’s daughter, Marilou Lyons, asked me if she could reproduce on the JCM website the devotionals I write each week for Greenville SC Interim Health Care. So for the last 17 years I’ve been writing...
