“Somebody said…” “Yeah, I know…” At church, my husband Jerry and I were walking through the lobby to the water fountain when we both noticed a retired friend as he greeted people at the door. In these five words, we communicated. We both knew what the other meant. You don’t get it? No, you …
Category Archives: Christian Devotional
Make it a Good Day
“Make it a good day.” For a while, an NPR reporter signed off the daily business report with those words. They don’t say that now. And yet, in spite of reports of job loss, foreclosure, and retirees going back to work, we can make it a good day. Because God is good. Because of God’s …
Handmade Beauty
In junior college, thirty-eight years ago, a sociology professor predicted the current resurgence of handcrafted items. He said the increasing mechanization and mass culture would create a desire for the personal, the handmade, and the individualized. I was reminded of that prediction this morning when I ran across an admonition to Buy Homemade this holiday …