Month: July 2021
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after a bout of illness at the age of nineteen months. Despite her handicaps, she attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Keller was a prolific…
A Simple Request
It was a busy day of housework. I took a moment to poke my head in my son’s room and tell him, “Your shirts are in the dryer. When it buzzes, take them out and hang them.” “Why?” he replied. “What did they do?”
God Blesses …
Matthew 5: The Beatitudes (All Scripture is from the New Living Translation) I always thought that the ideas behind the Beatitudes were original to Christ. But they were the message God has been sending all along! ********** “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs….
Desperate. Empty. Guilty.
“I come broken to be mendedI come wounded to be healedI come desperate to be rescuedI come empty to be filledI come guilty to be pardonedBy the blood of Christ the LambAnd I’m welcomed with open armsPraise God, just as I am”(This stanza is a bridge between verses of “Just As I Am,” as sung…
Wounded
“I come broken to be mendedI come wounded to be healedI come desperate to be rescuedI come empty to be filledI come guilty to be pardonedBy the blood of Christ the LambAnd I’m welcomed with open armsPraise God, just as I am”(This stanza is a bridge between verses of “Just As I Am,” as sung…
Broken
“I come broken to be mendedI come wounded to be healedI come desperate to be rescuedI come empty to be filledI come guilty to be pardonedBy the blood of Christ the LambAnd I’m welcomed with open armsPraise God, just as I am”(This stanza is a bridge between verses of “Just As I Am,” as sung…
“Just As I Am”
Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789 – 22 September 1871) was an English poet, hymn writer, and editor. Although being an invalid for much of her life, she wrote about 150 hymns and many poems, some of which were printed anonymously, with Just As I Am probably the best known. John Brownlie described the hymn’s story in his book The Hymns…
Silver where?
What with breakfast cereal and summer ice creams, our supply of spoons seemed to always be low. “I can’t imagine where all our spoons have gone,” I remarked to Jenna as I looked in the drawer. After a pause, she said, “Maybe they ran away with the dish.”
“Don’t Quit”
By John Greenleaf Whittier “When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,When the funds are low and the debts are high,And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer with…