by Marilou Lyons | Nov 15, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Every day we are assaulted by voices—colleagues, radio, television, newspapers, educators, famous people, even friends. What we listen to and whom we listen to can shape our beliefs, our actions, even our destiny. Sobering thought. A friend of mine believes the earth...
by Marilou Lyons | Nov 9, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Guinness World Records says the oldest living human being is Kane Tanaka of Japan, aged 118 years. However, there is an incontrovertible record of a man, Methuselah, who actually lived until he was 969 years old! His name in Hebrew could translate, “When he is dead it...
by Marilou Lyons | Nov 2, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Today I think I saw two angels. You might have thought they were two middle-aged, average Americans stolidly on their way to shop for groceries. But Hebrews 13:2 says “Some have entertained angels unawares.” I often travel alone. I try to be prepared for automobile...
by Marilou Lyons | Oct 26, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
When I was four years old, I decided that by the time I was ten years old, I would be able to be good. I wouldn’t steal the neighbor’s baby rabbit from its cage again. I wouldn’t hide change from the quarter when Mother sent me to the store for a loaf of bread again....
by Marilou Lyons | Oct 18, 2021 | 2021
We’re talking about heavy stuff today, heavy but important. Please stick with me, O.K.? Adele Rogers St. John, a cub reporter with Hearst Newspapers, rode one night with an EMS crew to a home in San Francisco. They found a father and mother and several children dead,...
by Marilou Lyons | Oct 11, 2021 | 2021
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...
