by Marilou Lyons | Mar 28, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
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....
by Marilou Lyons | Mar 17, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
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...
by Marilou Lyons | Mar 11, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
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...
by Marilou Lyons | Mar 3, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford All of her friends were upset when our dear friend told us she’d been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and faced immediate surgery. She’s old (by our reckoning), lives alone, has rather meager resources...
by Marilou Lyons | Feb 19, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Handford My husband Walt was an ardent mountaineer, growing up in Seattle. He and his aged father even did a 3-day backpack into the Three Sisters, peaks each over 10,000 feet in the Cascade Mountains. Walt could walk into a...
