by leedannelly | Feb 8, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
“Don’t Count Your Hens Before They Hitch!” A Gentle Reminder from Elizabeth Rice Handford Five-year-old son John came home from kindergarten one day, excited as usual about all the new things he was learning. “You know what I learned today,...
by leedannelly | Feb 2, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
If Your Boss Is Angry A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford “I think my boss is going to fire me,” my visitor said. “Why?” “Maybe because I can’t do the job.” “But they hired you because they thought you...
by leedannelly | Jan 25, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Who Watches the One in Charge? A conversation with Elizabeth Rice Handford One morning, when I was a Christian school principal, I learned something about myself I didn’t like. A teacher brought a girl into the school office. It wasn’t the first time her...
by leedannelly | Jan 18, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Little Is Much When God Is in It A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford It’s almost a fairy tale, the love story of Kittie Jenneth and Fred Suffield. She had a lovely contralto voice and in the 1900’s was training for the concert stage in...
by leedannelly | Jan 11, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Even in Seeming Chaos, God Is Still in Charge A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford I had just completed my checkride in a little Cessna 150 with the FAA inspector for my private pilot’s license, and we were headed back to the Greenville...
by leedannelly | Jan 4, 2021 | 2021, Devotionals
Same Old New Year’s Resolutions? A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Every New Year’s Eve my father encouraged us children to make new year’s resolutions. And every year, for several years in my childhood, I remember that my first...