by Marilou Lyons | Feb 7, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I’ve been cleaning out my clothes closet this week and came across the Interim sweater I wore in the days when my husband Walt and I were chaplains for employees and patients at Interim Healthcare in Greenville, SC....
by Marilou Lyons | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford In Indiana, mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to kiss other humans. Why did Kansas pass a law, “If two trains meet on the same track, neither shall proceed until the other has passed”? Obviously,...
by Marilou Lyons | Jan 26, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Lament from Elizabeth Rice Handford I remember my zoology professor at Wheaton, Dr. Russell Mixter, teaching us about God’s marvelous design of the human hand with its “opposing thumb.” Ever since I broke my right thumb in two places in a fall last month, oh, my...
by Marilou Lyons | Jan 17, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
“Goblin Mode”: A New Term for an Old Bad Habit A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Every year the Oxford Dictionary editors consider what new words ought to be added to their dictionary. This year 300,000 people voted to choose the new word, and...
by Marilou Lyons | Jan 9, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
My Sister Jessie Is with Jesus Elizabeth Rice Handford shares comfort in mourning Photo by Tom Kilpatrick It’s hard for me to tell you I lost my sister and dear friend this week. I was tempted simply to choose a Scripture about Heaven with you,...
by Marilou Lyons | Jan 2, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
Thinking about the New Year with Elizabeth Rice Handford Every New Year’s Eve my father, a pastor, encouraged the church family to make some fresh decisions, new choices, about how we’d change things in our lives in the new year. For several years, I remember, when I...
