March, 2021 – Time to Pause
One September many years ago, my boys and I were running a little late to get to our Christian School on time. After going to the car, it came to me that I had forgotten a book that I would…
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March, 2021
Amazing news in February! A couple who wished to remain anonymous offered a matching donation of $5000.00 if others collectively gave that much during the month of February. I am happy to announce that not only did faithful supporters –…
February, 2021 – It Could Only be God’s Love
Generally, every February I dedicate this space to having something to do with ‘love’. Here in New England, February can also be the ‘flu and storm month’, but given that Valentine’s Day greets us with a note of positivity (for…
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February, 2021
There has not been a lot of change with Love From Above in Romania since last month. One wonderful bit of news is ‘Project Upstairs’! It concerns the upstairs to our church, Canaan in Halchiu, needing to be finished or…
January, 2021 – ‘Follow Me’ – in 2021
2020 is gone. It is over. Never were people so happy to kick a year to the curb. It was the ‘year that was’! I heard Charles Swindoll say recently, “Other than the normal difficulties a year can bring, Covid-19…
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January, 2021
We made it! We did it! We pulled through! The pandemic of 2020 is not over, nor the wake that it has created, but we found out that we were stronger and more resilient than perhaps we thought we were. …
December, 2020 – Silent Night, Please…
I know the Scripture lends itself to our crying out our praise to our Magnificent God. ‘Shout for joy to God, all the earth’ – Psalms 66.1 and 100.1. All of Psalm 150 concerns itself with shouting out our praise…
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December, 2020
We are so blessed to be called to be used as Jesus’ eyes and heart, hands and feet – in good times and bad times. COVID-19 continues to wrack and ruin the folks in Romania. Cities are being shut down…
November, 2020 – Thankfulness Learned, First Hand
It was eighty-five years ago – November 9, 1935, to be exact – that Freda Elizabeth Cochran and Lewis Ermon Bean became a young married couple in Washington County, Maine. I knew them better as Mama and Daddy. Actually, they…
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November, 2020
October was a busy and wonderful month for Love From Above – apart from my not being able to be in ‘the other land that I love’, Romania! Meds were supplied to the two orphanages (Albina and Barza Mica) –…