Last week my research took me to a speech that President Harry Truman gave on December 24, 1946, at the lighting ceremony for the National Christmas Tree. These portions that I am sharing with you today were so well-spoken that I simply don't want to wait until next Christmas to share them. I want ... View Post
We have much to learn from children.
Ray and I recently enjoyed a popcorn, cider, and movie night with some of our grandchildren and their parents. The children got to pick the movie. They chose one they had just seen less than a week before. They knew everything that was about to happen and anticipated scene after scene with ... View Post
The Missing Vocabulary Word
Yesterday afternoon in the YouTube Live assembly for our church, Ray taught from Psalm 15. He told us that we were going to be talking about one of those big Bible words. The word is righteousness. Righteousness is missing from the vocabulary of too many. It's a word I don't hear anywhere except in ... View Post
Moccasins and the Golden Rule
When I was a girl, I used to hear people say that we needed to "walk in other people's moccasins." I don't hear that saying much anymore, but it's a good one. If we haven't experienced what someone else has experienced (or walked in their moccasins), it is hard to understand their joys and ... View Post
Stretchable Mama
My friend (I'll call her Lisa) homeschooled her oldest two children and is still homeschooling her third. We met Lisa and her husband (I'll call him Jeffrey) before they had children. They eventually had three. I'll call them Austin, Kevin, and Rachel. Lisa first knew she wanted to homeschool ... View Post
What Can We Do About the News?
Like you, events in the news have been on my mind. Yesterday Ray and I were in a Zoom meeting. When the subject of events in the news came up in the conversation, one person said that he believes that 99 percent of Americans are good, law-abiding people. As I contemplated his statement later, I ... View Post