As many are suffering physically, some financially and others emotionally from our present pandemic, I realize it is a very serious situation. I do not make light of it, but as with death and grief, humor can help brighten dark days. It is proven humor can hasten the grief process; if that be the case, […]
A visitor, who was doing a special puppet presentation for the fun day at Vacation Bible School, presented one of Aesop’s fables. He tied it in the verse, Ephesians 4:32 – And be ye kind one to another. When he finished, he tried to recap the lesson with the three-year-olds. “We learned to be kind, […]
“You mean those words we repeated during our wedding ceremony are for real? Surely we aren’t supposed to be tied to them, are we?” I’m afraid this permeates the attitude of many couples today. Months of planning go into weddings; vast amounts of money are spent, but for many couples the vows repeated mean nothing. […]
Red-Kool-Aid mustaches, lightning bugs in a jar, revival preacher at our house, learning “do re mi” at singing school, homemade ice cream with a yard full of relatives are just a few of the flashing summer scenes which roll through my mind as I think of summers gone by. Never would we have sat in […]
At our family get-togethers, often someone will tell something funny my mother did or said. I join in with the many humorous things I remember, but I would be amiss if I neglected to share just how fabulous she was. Mom knew how to make something beautiful from near nothing. She made clothes for my […]
Often things are not what they appear. It’s simply funny when people make blunders in identifying people or situations. Recently, I led a ladies’ retreat/conference for the ladies of Bethany Baptist Church, Horton, Alabama, in Orange Beach. The only male among our twenty-two ladies was our bus driver. On our first night there, we were […]