by Joyce Herron Founder of Trinity Christian School, Lubbock, Texas Recently, I spent four days at a ranch for a short vacation. Fourteen others were there, too, but I only knew three of them. Among the group were business owners, doctors, nurses, teachers, and parents whose ages ranged from 50-something to 90-something. We met each morning for breakfast around a …
An ordinary package — taped, addressed, and covered with postal stickers. An ordinary journey — traveling by railcar the 229 miles from New York City to Washington D.C. An ordinary postal worker — delivering the package from his satchel, from which he had delivered so many others. Yes, almost everything about this package was conventional for the USPS — …
She’d welcomed me before I could get out of my driver’s seat — this beautiful woman whom I had not seen for almost fifty years. We’d once spent an entire year together, she and I. She as teacher — I as her student. Oh the memories of that second grade year. Hippo Holes. Tutti’s Panties. The Snow White play. …
Several weeks ago, we started looking at prayer together. If you read the initial posting, you will remember that when I compiled selected prayer verses, I found them all to be about Truth. Now let’s do more than just talk about prayer. Let’s truly intercede for someone. Who do you know that needs a firm dose of Truth in …
“Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” Bobbie’s words struck like a bright bolt of understanding into my dark space of confusion. For weeks, I had been grappling with just how to connect with God. At age fourteen, my insecurity complicated the thought of prayer into an elaborate, mysterious web. Yet in her simple and …
