by Marilou Lyons | Sep 27, 2021 | 2021
“I live in a goldfish bowl,” a dear friend, a pastor’s wife, confessed to me one long-ago day. “I feel like I live in a gold-fish bowl with a cat staring at me hungrily.” Her husband was a pastor of a large metropolitan church, and the demands on her time and energy...
by Marilou Lyons | Sep 20, 2021 | 2021
Queen Victoria was still on the throne in England when my Mother and Father were born. Her strict standards of propriety seeped into American society, even into remote homes in west Texas. A woman’s place was in the home. Children should be seen and not heard. Girls...
by Marilou Lyons | Sep 13, 2021 | 2021
How could anyone who is a child of God hate someone? The Bible tells us plainly that God made all human beings in His image. How terrible it would be to denigrate someone, anyone, since all of us were made in God’s image! What does it matter if we are different? Skin...
by Marilou Lyons | Sep 6, 2021 | 2021
She “done me wrong.” She really did wrong me, and if I could tell you what happened, you’d agree that it was an irreparable loss. I really wanted to tell her how badly she’d injured me. But then, I think, my Heavenly Father interrupted my thoughts. He said, so gently,...
by leedannelly | Aug 23, 2021 | 2021
There’s a section in Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, where the soaring sopranos sing a couple of notes of “He shall reign forever and ever,” then the altos and tenors chime in with their variations on the theme, then the basses add their strong...
by leedannelly | Aug 16, 2021 | 2021
Remember those excruciatingly wavy, funny mirrors at carnivals? Remember how they distorted your eyes into bug eyes, your legs into matchsticks, and your tummy into a swollen watermelon? We laughed because it was absurd. It wasn’t reality. But too many people,...
