In February, Jerry and I were waiting in the podiatrist’s exam room for him to have his foot x-rayed. So as to encourage him, I said, “There is light at the end of the tunnel.” His response was, “Are you sure it is not a locomotive?” I said, gently, “Yes, I am sure.”...
How can this be? Did He not plan it from the beginning when He created all things. Everything we needed was created before man needed it. All He had planned was ready when He took the dust from the earth, created a form, and breathed His Spirit into it, giving it...
In 1911, Julia H. Johnston wrote the text of the hymn Marvelous Grace (Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin). Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt! Yonder on Calvary’s mount outpoured, There where the blood of the Lamb was...
I AM is a Perfectionist. Remember those italicized words in the King James Version, those smaller words that added clarity to the sentence from the Hebrew translation? I speak here as I have learned from the Great I AM. I AM is a holy God, a perfect Father, Creator...
You need restoration. You need to update, clear your history, empty your caches, cookies and trash. You need RECOVERY. Last week, after things kept failing on our computer, Facebook was frozen with the twirling beach ball (We use it for sharing our posts and our...
We are almost halfway through this year in our series on Contentment. I have personally learned much as I have prayed, studied, and written on this subject. Through these six months we have continued to see the extreme between oppression and contentment. We are...
Yesterday, as I was thinking of all the medical appointments we have had for Jerry these last six months (sometimes five a week), it became clear that we are constantly making appointments for the things that pertain to this life. All are to minister to our needs, as...
A greeting card we received ten years ago stands on our computer desk. We received it from someone we did not know, who wrote, "Dear Fran and Jerry, We have you on our "permanent" prayer list and have been fervently praying for you regularly." A neighbor of ours had...
Over the decades we have learned what agents are effective for certain needs. Jerry and I should have bought stock in The Clorox Company when we first married almost fifty-six years ago, since it is the most powerful solution for mildew and especially for bloodstains....