Hang on 15 More Minutes

The air traffic controller could see our future, so he asked, Can You Hang on for Fifteen More Minutes? It should have been a routine flight, late one night as Walt and I were flying back to Greenville in our sturdy little Rockwell Commander. The weather briefing had...

God is Faithful Even When I am Not

Odd, isn’t it, how you can read something in the Bible a dozen times, and then, all of a sudden when you read it again, it grabs your heart and twists it painfully? The other morning I read in 2 Timothy 2:13: If we are unfaithful, God remains faithful, for He cannot...

Living in a Goldfish Bowl

“I live in a goldfish bowl,” a dear friend, a pastor’s wife, confessed to me one long-ago day. “I feel like I live in a gold-fish bowl with a cat staring at me hungrily.” Her husband was a pastor of a large metropolitan church, and the demands on her time and energy...

Boys and Girls Are Both Precious to God!

Queen Victoria was still on the throne in England when my Mother and Father were born. Her strict standards of propriety seeped into American society, even into remote homes in west Texas. A woman’s place was in the home. Children should be seen and not heard. Girls...