Bible at Home

“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “You are worried about many things, but few are needed—or indeed, only one. Mary has chosen better part, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:40-42)…

Skaneateles Lake in New York State was the place for our final scuba diving test. Jack and I had finished the test and were sitting on the deck of a friend of our instructor. He told us about the lake in all seasons and then said, “One spring morning I was sitting out here having…

Jack emerged from the bottom of the St. Lawrence River and reached out to hand me a glass goblet he had just found. When I took the goblet I could see that it had a very large chip on one side. “It’s chipped,” I said. “Throw it back!” “Look at the date on it,” he…

Very firmly my father would say to his three quite young daughters, “Your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world.” At four years old I knew that he was right, and none of us ever questioned him at all. One day my oldest sister,hanging from the banister in the front hallway, said,”There’s going…

At a time when my brother-in-law was having serious health problems , his wife, my sister Jane, was called for jury duty. She protested, and asked to be excused, but was refused, and so she showed up at the appointed time and date. At the questioning of the potential jurors, she gave her name and…

John Kennedy Jr., President Kennedy’s son, was killed in a plane crash near Martha’s Vineyard in July of 1999. He had taken pilot lessons and was flying a small plane from New York on a very foggy day. It was a shocking disaster, as his wife and sister-in-law were on board and all three perished.…

For two and a half weeks the contents of my kitchen have been stacked in piles around the rest of the house while we had the cabinets and drawers painted. It wouldn’t have taken so long except for the three day freeze and the two days of Jack not feeling well so the painter didn’t…

The process of making silk fabric requires only a temperate climate, an abundance of mulberry trees, and a small white moth, the “silk moth”, to lay eggs that produce silkworms who make cocoons after devouring the mulberry leaves. The cocoons themselves are made into silk after processing, as a “thread” is unwound from each cocoon…

“My word! What a mess you’re making,” said Nana to us children when we were busy cutting paper and strewing it around . I used to wonder what “My word” really meant, until I read Isaiah 55:11: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven , and do not return to it without…

My father used to work in an office not too far from the school I attended in seventh grade. I usually walked home for lunch, but sometimes Dad would say, “Stop by the office and I’ll give you a lift. I’ll meet you there.” It was a treat to go home for lunch with him.…