by Marilou Lyons | Jul 24, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I’d never even seen a river birch until Walt and I moved to South Carolina. When I saw my first one, my heart was completely smitten! The patches of dusky pink bark that peeled off were big enough to write a love...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 17, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Why do good things happen to bad people? People more often ask, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” But it’s also important to find out why good things happen to bad people, because, obviously, they really...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 11, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Yesterday I decided to give my long-haired dachshund a bath. She needed a bath like any dog who rolls in the dust after sniffing at odd smells. I called her to come. But she’d seen signs of a bath coming, so she ran...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 3, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement with Elizabeth Rice Handford Why do thousands of refugees risk drowning in an unsafe boat or suffocating in a packed airless tractor trailer in an effort to get inside our borders? Why? Because, they see in America a treasure unmatched by any...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 26, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A word of encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford The Israeli King Ahab in Bible times wasn’t doing what a good king was supposed to do: helping people do right and punishing evil doers. (The story is told in First Kings, chapter 20.) Instead, King Ahab was “doing...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 20, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Life throws a lot of choices at us, and sometimes they are more important than we realize. I remember one late evening when I suddenly had to make a life-altering decision by 8:00 o’clock the next morning. I was 18...
