by Marilou Lyons | Feb 20, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
We agree. don’t we, that a boss doesn’t hire a salesman because he’s handsome, but because he’s an effective salesman. A mother doesn’t spend her time on making the house pretty so her neighbors will be impressed. Rather she creates a home, a refuge, for her husband...
by Marilou Lyons | Feb 13, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
Your Valentine from the God who loves you dearly Too often our concept of God is that He is an angry, unloving despot leaning over the battlements of Heaven, watching us with an eagle eye, hoping to catch us doing something wrong so He can zap us in glee with a 2 X 4...
by Marilou Lyons | Feb 7, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I’ve been cleaning out my clothes closet this week and came across the Interim sweater I wore in the days when my husband Walt and I were chaplains for employees and patients at Interim Healthcare in Greenville, SC....
by Marilou Lyons | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford In Indiana, mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to kiss other humans. Why did Kansas pass a law, “If two trains meet on the same track, neither shall proceed until the other has passed”? Obviously,...
by Marilou Lyons | Jan 26, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Lament from Elizabeth Rice Handford I remember my zoology professor at Wheaton, Dr. Russell Mixter, teaching us about God’s marvelous design of the human hand with its “opposing thumb.” Ever since I broke my right thumb in two places in a fall last month, oh, my...
by Marilou Lyons | Jan 17, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
“Goblin Mode”: A New Term for an Old Bad Habit A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Every year the Oxford Dictionary editors consider what new words ought to be added to their dictionary. This year 300,000 people voted to choose the new word, and...
