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I remember sitting in a high school class one day, looking at my teacher, and wondering, “What could possibly possess a person to become a teacher! Why would anyone voluntarily commit themselves to be in school again once they had finally graduated…and escaped?” I mean, she looked like a reasonable, rational person. My next thought…
As sinners against the holy God our Creator, we know that all we really deserve is eternity in hell. So, anything we receive that is the least bit better than that suffering, we should view as God’s mercy to us. However, many times in life, we have difficulty recognizing God’s mercy. For God’s mercy does…
I guess just about every young lady has at one time or another had a crush on a boy in her school or at church. I remember classmates in junior high showing me these elaborate happily-ever-after prediction tools made of paper that fit over the thumb and index finger on each hand. Depending on how…
For eight years I was a teacher in a Christian high school. One day, I walked into the teacher work room where two of our parent volunteers were working and talking with another teacher. The subject? Hairstyles and the woes of finding just the right style. You know…easy, yet flattering. I’m still searching for mine….
If you have a brother or sister, or if you have more than one child, then you are very familiar with sibling rivalry. But in case you’ve never heard the term, sibling rivalry is the jealousy, fighting, and competition that happens between brothers and sisters. Sibling rivalry takes many forms. As young children, siblings fight…
This past week we read about how Isaac’s father, Abraham, found him a wife, who became a comfort to him. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. Genesis 24:67 However, when I think…
I have never lost a child. For that I am extremely grateful. But I know that some of you have. I can only imagine the anguish of having to say a final goodbye in this life to one’s own child. The only thing, I believe, that could give any comfort would be if I knew…
God is our Friend at all times. But would God consider me His friend? After all, friendship must be a two-way street…
It is hard for me to even imagine Hagar’s life. She was an Egyptian handmaid, a slave, given to Abram for Sarai as they were thrust out of Egypt in Genesis chapter 12. As a slave, Hagar had no choice but to leave her homeland and all that she had ever known. Neither did she…
When my daughter, Taylor, was in the fourth grade, her class went on a field trip to Desoto Caverns. My husband and I went as chaperones, so our youngest daughter, Mallory, also got in on the fun. We all have some great and some borderline traumatic memories from the experience. The not so pleasant memories…