by Marilou Lyons | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford People often ask me what my favorite verse in the Bible is, and my answer depends on what I am troubled about at the moment! Sometimes it has been one that you probably can quote from memory: “For God so loved the...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 24, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I was dismayed when I opened my front door to a woman who came to me for counsel.Her face was a taut mask of pain and grief like I’d seldom seen. I hadn’t met her before, and I had no idea of her need. But she could...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 16, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Handford When I was a child, and Mother was making biscuits, I would read again the line that was printed on every bag of General Mills Gold Medal Flour. It intrigued me so. It was only three words: “Why not now?” I was deeply...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 11, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Handford Have you ever felt like your world had collapsed, and that God has forgotten you? I remember a Sunday when the Rice family gathered at Mother’s and Daddy’s house for dinner in Wheaton. My sister Grace and her husband...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 11, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement with Elizabeth Rice Handford Schatzi: Chicago? A beautiful day? And rain? When I let Schatzi out the other morning, I said, “Schatzi, it’s a beautiful day in Chicago.” My long-haired dachshund looked up in surprise. This was the Carolinas, not...
