Start Walking

An orphan girl in India was desperate to find a home.  One day, she approached a visiting missionary teacher from a nearby village and asked the woman for help.  The teacher had no room in her home for the girl, and no money to make a place.  ”But I will pray and ask God for [...]

Gladness

Last night I finished reading a book, ‘Notes from the Dog’, by Gary Paulsen. Second book in a row that I’d read because a dog plays a major part. Second book in a row that has cancer as a main player in the story. That was not intentional. Yet, as I was several pages into [...]

God’s Grace

Photo by Ellie Seaby

“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through a station: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind.  Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.” – C. S. Lewis

These were sobering words this morning. It [...]

Alone Time

“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world’s progress has come out of such loneliness.” – Bruce Barton

Really? I mean REALLY? It is hard for me to imagine being alone. Maybe I’m odd because when I think “alone” I think without [...]