by Marilou Lyons | Jul 30, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford This has been a difficult week. Three funerals in eight days. Three godly men. Dear friends. Two of them in the prime of life. All three companions in ministry with my dear husband Walt at one time or...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 30, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford The summer I was 16 I worked in my father’s Christian book store. The work was pleasant and always challenging. One hot day a distraught woman hurried into the store. “May I help you?” I asked. “Yes. I need...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 17, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “Dr. Handford! Wait up!” a woman called, as Walt and I were walking out of a doctor’s office. “I’m so glad to see you,” she said. “For thirty years I’ve wanted to tell you how much it meant to me when you...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 10, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
By Elizabeth Rice Handford “Let’s be kinder,” a blogger recently burbled. “Let’s love each other more.” Oh, how right she is! This poor old world desperately needs to see us Christians loving others, caring for the poor, compassionately watching for ways to help...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 10, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford On a Sunday afternoon, when I was 14 years old, I was at my Sunday school teacher’s home, practicing for a Christmas program. She suddenly burst into the room, her voice shaking. “Girls,” she cried, “run home just...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 25, 2025 | 2025, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “I need self-validation*,” a woman said to her friend. “I’m going to confront my mother today.” “What in the world is self-validation?” the friend asked naively. Incredulous, the woman said, “You haven’t heard about...
