by Marilou Lyons | Jan 6, 2025 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Facing the new year is daunting. The year 2025 is unknown. We can’t guess what will happen about inflation, family relationships, employment, the cultural divide our country faces, or the threats of hostilities all...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford On a long flight from Connecticut to Washington, D.C., my seat mate was a beautiful Jewish woman. We’d had a lively conversation about things we were both interested in. Then I told her about my relationship with...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 9, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “Nobody wants me,” a distraught woman said to me as she opened the door to me. “God doesn’t even want me.” How deeper could a human being’s despair go? This dear woman had found life intolerable, and thought she’d...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Handford A bestseller by Kate Bowler bears the title, “Everything Happens for a Reason: and Other Lies I’ve Loved.” The title and the book imply that Romans 8:28 is a lie, a comforting lie, but still a blatant lie. Romans 8:28...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Handford If you ask me for my favorite Scripture, I’d answer that it depends on what I need from God that day. In a time of stress recently, I turned to Isaiah 44 and 45. In that grand passage, the name of an unknown king...
