Bible at Home

Before I was married, my mother told me that the day would come when I would hear myself use an expression I had never used before, but that my husband used, “Don’t worry,” she said, “You haven’t lost your identity. You’ve just appropriated some of his. You are still your own self.” I found that…

On December 31 I read the last chapter of the Book of Revelation and found this:” I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who ha been showing them to me. But he…

Driving home from a visit with our foster child’s mother, I was surprised when five-year-old Emily told me that her mother was going to “get another baby.” I was quite sure that if that were true, I would have been told, and so I said nothing. Emily seemed to think that it explained why she…

The Exchange In the 1966 movie, “The Trouble With Angels” Mary a rebellious young girl at a Catholic school run by Mother Superior (Rosalind Russel),found the head of school finishing a project begun by another student who had fallen asleep. For the first time Mary had a real conversation with Mother Superior, who told her…

It was getting late when I went for the second time into my four year old granddaughter’s room to remind her to settle down and go to sleep. I looked at her wide open eyes and said, “I’ll just sit here in your chair until you go to sleep.” “You’re going to stay with me?”…

When Corrie Ten Boom walked into a men’s prison in Bermuda and started talking (shouting) about Jesus and God’s power to transform lives, she couldn’t be heard because of the noise coming from the cells. When she finally shouted, “When I was in a German concentration camp during the war. . .” , suddenly it…

When Mary called Jesus to come in for supper, the name she used was “Yeshua”, the Aramaic for of the name “Joshua”, which was later translated to Greek, then Latin , into the English “Jesus”. As Christians we mostly forget that the baby Jesus was named for the prophet and leader Joshua, by instruction from…

When I was born my father’s sister, my Aunt Mildred, selected a sterling silver pattern and purchased for me a spoon in that pattern. Afterward I received a spoon or fork or knife every birthday and Christmas from her. On Christmas Eve I was allowed to open Aunt Mildred’s gift only. My brother also opened…

This Christmas season I felt the urge to binge on feel-good Hallmark Christmas style T.V. Shows. I experienced a diminishing sense of pleasure at one romance after another, accompanied by starry-eyed children and some amazing “coincidences” “Go back to your heart, and from there to God. You’re going back, you see, from the nearest possible…

The four year old daughter of Diane, a friend of mine, was so unruly that her mother could hardly control her. Lori was the youngest of three children and “willful” would be an understatement of her character. Diane talked to her pediatrician who told her, “You can be very strict, or very lenient, but it…