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Love and Faithfulness at Work

Chee! Chee! A piercing distress call pulled my attention to an area of the parking lot where three little girls giggled. Their father drew them away from the mother bird. As others walked by her nest, the beautiful killdeer spread her wings and puffed up her feathers in a protective bluff. A few feet away, I looked among the rounded decorative stones where she stood guard. Sure enough. She had laid a clutch of eggs,… Read More

A Prayer Not Forgotten

"Beth, you're going blind." My optometrist's words sank like a stone in my seventeen-year-old heart. He must have caught my utter dismay because he quickly went on. "Don't worry. We may be able to stop, even reverse your condition a little, with something new." The "something new" he referred to were contact lenses. My heart sank further. How could a high school senior afford anything that cost the equivalent of a college semester's tuition? My… Read More

What Amazing Love!

I'll never forget the evening Jim and I watched Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" at our local movie theater. As we exited with other patrons, no one uttered a word! What we had just witnessed on the screen--the unvarnished horror Jesus' sufferings--had stunned us to silence. As I recall the movie's content, all I can say is, "What amazing love God has for us!" That Jesus would willingly suffer such a horrible death… Read More