by Marilou Lyons | Aug 28, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford A supervisor burst into my husband’s office one morning, almost hysterical. “You’ve got to make those girls respect me!” she cried. “They don’t have any respect for me!” Walt was the CEO of my father’s publishing...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 21, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford You remember those tedious lists of names scattered through the Bible, don’t you? Somebody “begat” somebody, or somebody belonged to some tribe or other. One day recently, the two chapters I was to read in my Bible...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 17, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford One morning my child said to me, “Mother, please be tender with me today.” Unusual request. What was behind it, I wondered. “I will be tender, I promise,” I answered. “Do you want to talk about it?” “No.” That day I...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 11, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Friends invited several of families over for dinner one evening. We were congenial. The conversation was lively, important, and uninhibited. But suddenly one of the guests, a fourteen-year-old, interrupted. He...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “The universe has lost its soul of loveliness,” George Romanes wrote as he wept. Why? Because he came to believe Darwin’s evolutionary theory was true. And if Darwin was right, then the Bible was wrong, and that...
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...
