When I was young, I remember a missionary from time to time coming to our local church in Maine needing to raise support either to go to a mission field, or return to the mission field where God had called…

Years ago, all teachers in the large inner-city school where I taught were required to step into the hallway between classes while students were passing.  The teachers would glance at each other and give a faint smile, or nod.  I…

Recently, my pastor in Massachusetts delivered a sermon on ‘boundaries’ that we may be required to cross in our lifetime.  And that may happen at any point from re-locating, to being put into a new position in our job, to…

My time in Romania – July, 2024 to December, 2024 – was an unparalleled challenge – like never before.  Everything did not go wrong.  It just seemed as if it were ‘everything’.  I had only been in the country less…

I have a story to tell:     Once upon a time way back in the early 1900’s, there was a thirty-two-year-old mother of five with the youngest being only a few months old.  Besides their own biological children, the older widower…

I was shocked one year when I was teaching in the Providence (RI) Public School System to hear one of my students say, “I hate Christmas”.   And, even more shocked when I found out that there were others who held…

It’s interesting every four years watching so many get their thoughts, their brains – (and the need to revisit their junior high mentality) – over who is going to become elected President of the USA.  It’s sad, too.  I watch…

Every morning of our lives when we rise, we never know what that day will hold for us.  But generally, we don’t think about that.  In August, 2020, I was doing a simple leg exercise and in injuring my back…

There have been many, many books written concerning angels.  I am not writing to add to any of those, but rather perhaps from personal experiences.  I know the Scripture says in Psalm 91.11 that “He (God) will give His angels…

August! – my Birthday Month!   (A-hem) years ago, I was named ‘Dawn Ellen Bean’.  It came to me one day, though, that even though I thought of myself as just ‘Dawn’  – not everyone else did.  My older relatives called…