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Born Again In the C.S. Lewis story Voyage of the Dawn Treader a young boy experiences the conversion of his character from a disagreeable self absorbed child to a caring and even courageous child, Eustace was unwillingly swept into Narnia, Lewis’ imaginary world that parallels the Christian world of England. Eustace was accompanied by his…

Small Beginnings At four years old I was in the hospital with a tonsillectomy when an older cousin sent me a card in the shape of a toy locomotive. The first day she sent the engine, and for three more days she sent a different car, to make up a whole train. For some reason…

Recently as I walked slowly down an aisle of the grocery store, a woman stopped to complement may hair style, which was a braid wrapped around my head. I thanked her and then she said, “The Bible says that a women’s hair is her glory!” I was surprised, and quickly answered, “It also says that…

In 2020 the State of Texas acknowledged in its Handbook of Texas, that the Karankawa Indians, the tribe that had inhabited the coast from Galveston to Corpus Christie and several miles inland more than six hundred years ago, is not in fact extinct, but has been assimilated into the State of Texas while retaining their…

A Good Story Almost buried in the Old Testament is the story of the young boy Samuel who hears the voice of God and mistakes it for the voice of his guardian Eli. It’s a story included in children’s Bibles, but seldom mentioned in sermons or in adult lesson books. It’s one of my favorite…

After St. Paul was shipwrecked off the island of Malta (Acts 27:42, 28:1-10) he left for Rome on a ship displaying the figurehead of the twin Greek gods Castor and Pollux. In one version of the story of these twins, they are identical, with the same mother but with different fathers. Pollux was said to…

“How does a whole book get inside my Kindle while I’m just sitting here?” my mother asked me. I wanted to to tell her exactly what she wanted to know, but I was as puzzled as she was, so I laughed, and said, “It’s a miracle of modern technology, Mom.” When I think of how…

When my granddaughter was three years old we went for a walk that took us through a brick enclosure where our voices produced an echo that frightened her. We talked about the echo and she said that she didn’t want to walk that way again: “When we go to the zoo, and you can show…

In the book of the First Thessalonians St. Paul writes of the end of the world and the second coming of Christ: “We who are still alive, who are left will be caught up together…in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.” (I Thessalonians…

A single verse in the book of I Chronicles tells the whole story of Jabez, a man who reached high for relief from what he regarded to be a curse upon him. It was his name, Jabez, which means “Pain,” for his mother had struggled in pain at his birth. “ ‘Oh, that you would…