Tending Your Garden
By the time winter has just about worn me out with long, dark days and vacant scenery, spring bursts forth. I anxiously head outdoors to...
Father Knows Best
In my early teens, I had a crush on a certain boy who was a year or two older than me. He was quite worldly, having been reared very...
Cross Words
The words we speak have great power. They have the potential to encourage or discourage, heal or hurt, soothe or provoke. A kind word...
Weathering the Storms
Spring in Southern Maryland is a conglomeration of virtually every type of weather-event known to humankind. It’s not uncommon to...
Listen Up!
Each of us is the product of our past . . . our upbringing, our influences, our choices, and our relationships. Often times, we develop...
The Hot Dog Incident
Many years ago when we were young parents with young children, Bobby and I gave our lives to Christ. Still in the infancy of our faith,...
Faux-Feminism
Don’t mistake the ill-treatment of women in centuries past as God’s sanctioning or approval of such behavior. The Lord is the champion...
Love at First Fight
Once upon a time, there was a Boy and Girl of teen-age. A mutual friend of Boy and Girl was a scheming Instigator who purposed to keep...
The Power of Silence
By the time I came to Christ, I’d been a wife for seven years. Naturally, the first thing I began petitioning God for was salvation for...
Love Story
Our culture is saturated with lewd, perverted examples of sexuality. True to his covert style, Satan uses all manner of deceit to...