"Perfect love casts out fear." (I John 4:16a, 4:18a) My newborn son was only two weeks old when suddenly one night, a horrific headache hit me and wouldn’t stop. Hubby took me to the emergency room, thinking that with the right meds he would just bring me back home....
“Then said I, “Here am I, send me.” (Isaiah 6:7b) When God saved me at age 16, I was the most shy, bashful teenager you have ever seen but I made a promise to God this time. I told Him one morning in my Sunday school class, “God, you know how talking to strangers...
After my Father died and was buried, my mother felt an overwhelming urge to clear up everything concerning his demise. Still reeling from the fact that he had taken his own life with a gun, she found it hard to face the public. She knew all the tales that must be...
“Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” (Psalms 37: 4) Right before Christmas in the year that I turned 71 years of age, for some reason I started thinking about the chocolate meringue pies that Mama used to make every...
A number of years ago while my husband was pastoring in Georgia, I had this question posed to me one afternoon by an adult visitor to my home. The lady in question was an emotional wreck. She kept trying to analyze why there is so much hurt and suffering in this world...
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” (Psalm 56:3) When the first three of our five children were still just small, my husband’s brother, Wendell gave to us our first family pet. It was a thoroughbred German Shepherd which his children had already named...
One day I stood on the high hill Overlooking my little town. From that lofty height I saw anew Just how small and insignificant I am. Spread out before me in the valley below Everything was of infinitesimal size All possessions, people, buildings and such I saw that...
“If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 After serving in our first church for twelve years, God moved us to Eastern North Carolina to serve in a small church in a farming community. We found it...
Is it any wonder that God admonishes His children to study the scriptures? We could not begin to learn all that God provided for us when we accepted His offer of sins forgiven with just a casual reading of a verse or two when we have our devotions each day. Have you...
Esther stood before the king with this statement of faith “If I perish,I perish” Totally aware of the consequences of standing before the king without being summoned, she put her flesh aside and all of her own ambitions and under the mantle of her destiny, she acted...