I started to lie to him, but God wouldn't let me. Douglas and I had been dating for months, but we never talked about marriage. We knew that each of us had been divorced, that we both had went online to the Christian dating site to find life partners who loved God, and that we... Continue Reading →
The Power of a Mother’s Love
People are what their mothers make them--Ralph Waldo Emerson Her name was Eloise, and I often wonder who she was, this woman who gave birth to me. She died in 1986, and I never learned anything about her past. What little she shared about where she was born and her maiden name has proven to... Continue Reading →
Freedom: 28 Days to Sanity
A stay in a mental hospital puts one's life in perspective. Twenty-eight days of intense counseling, multiple medicines with horrendous side effects, and the company of people who are as lost in their own worlds as you are in yours will change your priorities quickly. Time locked away from the rest of the world, especially... Continue Reading →
The Psalmists: Our First Religious Bloggers
As I read the Psalms, I started to think that the psalmists may have been the original religious bloggers, meaning people who wrote about their lives, triumphs and defeats, and of how God had intervened to help them, to encourage others to believe that God is able to do the same for them. To encourage... Continue Reading →
