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...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford The little boy didn’t believe his father when he said, “This hurts me more than it hurts you,” though his daddy’s eyes were filled with tears. Tommy had stolen some money at school. The principal discovered it, and...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Category 3 hurricane Helene was predicted. Urgent warnings of 80 mile-an-hour winds and dangerous flash floods were issued. I did my best to do everything they suggested to prepare. Bread. Milk. Bottled water. Dog...
by Marilou Lyons | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “It isn’t fair,” the young wife wailed. “He oughtn’t to get by with it.” If you knew the circumstances, you’d agree with her that the thief deserves punishment. An employee of her husband admitted he’d stolen...
by Marilou Lyons | Nov 22, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Everybody said the old man was stubborn and set in his ways, and there was no way he would ever become a Christian. People had certainly tried to convince him of his need. A deacon went; he said no. The pastor went;...
by Marilou Lyons | Oct 29, 2024 | 2024, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford When you are talking to me, don’t wistfully long for the “good old days.” I was born in 1927, the week Charles Lindberg flew the Atlantic alone in his fragile “Spirit of St. Louis.” I know all about the good old...
