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 she had married brought four children into their marriage – children nearly her age.  Their…

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 the same sentiment.  Sitting in a membership class several years ago at a church in…

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 those who would rather be ‘right’ than be civil and maintain friendships when ultimately there…

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 incurred acute scream-crying pain just to get up off my bed.  To get to the…

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 charge over you to guard you in all your ways.”  And that, I could write…

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 me ‘Dawn Ellen’.  I would hear people say, “Oh, that’s Lewis and Freda’s daughter” –…

Between my third and fourth years of college, I spent three months with missionaries on a beautiful, but poverty-ridden Caribbean Island.  I’m sure living conditions  have improved somewhat since I was there, but can you imagine having a piece of bread and a piece of cheese with homemade (oh-so-bitter) cocoa for breakfast and supper every…

I had intended to write just those words ‘See Jesus on your journey’ to a precious struggling, Christian friend of mine one May morning.  But, before I did, I knew that I  needed to get into the Word – to see what the Lord had for me.  Having been studying through the book of Hebrews,…

When my oldest son was little, he liked ‘having all his ducks in a row’ – things in their proper place – things identified.  He was only three or four years old when he crawled up on his Papa’s lap, looked right into my Dad’s face and said, “Zachie has green eyes- and Papa has…

Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) was a member of the Church of England. In later years, when she was not able to attend public worship, she wrote, “My Bible is my church. It is always open, and there is my High Priest ever waiting to receive me. There, I have my confessional, my thanksgiving, my psalm of praise,…