Almost twenty years ago, a woman named Bonnie Hector was murdered a few miles outside of our city.  She worked for Geico insurance company ...

T he wind began roaring like a freight train last evening and continued through the night.  This morning we awakened to gray skies, rain, sw...

Every time I read the story of Nebuchadnezzar and his golden image in the book of Daniel, I think of the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe She...

There are things I probably should no longer read or see. This morning, I saw a headline about a 16-month-old girl who was left alone in a...

I stand before a holy God, By frequent failings mar red , By persistent sinning scar red , By troubles encumbe red , By enemies outn...

  When Bill died so unexpectedly and suddenly, a friend told me that God had granted me a "severe mercy."  I had heard the term be...

One summer in the 1960s, I was working as a nurse at a hospital in a small city near a military base.   When I came to work one morning, I w...

Recently I mentioned to someone that my family did not expect Bill to die before me.   They thought that I would die first, and then they wo...

Before I met you, I believed you existed, Somewhere beyond my reach.   And when I met you, My heart beat faster, Knowing you wer...

In Mark 6:7 and 12-13, we read,   “Calling the twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.”   Foll...