There are many events that we anticipate with great delight, vacations, celebrations and Christmas, to name a few!  Our response to someone’s asking about them might be “Can’t wait”! My husband and I experienced a different situation that elicited the same response several years ago. We were taking a trip to see relatives, and the [...]

We see them all around us, sometimes sharing the real pain in their hearts and sometimes not expressing it. They are parents who love Jesus and have raised their children to love Him too.   They have prayed to the Lord that their sons and daughters would love Him!  Yet, they have not experienced what they [...]

At the end of the 1980′s and beginning of the 1990′s, we used to enjoy watching ‘Family Matters’, a Friday night comedy, set in Chicago. There was one character whose part began small and increased greatly as the series progressed–you may remember Steve Urkel, as well as one of his well known tag lines “Did [...]

When my husband was a young boy, he didn’t like watching the television show, ‘Bat Man’.  Why?  It was because at the end of the first night of the two weekly night episodes, while Bat Man hung precariously over a vat of boiling liquid or some other peril, the same message came over the air!  [...]

My father was in the Navy in World War II. He didn’t share very many stories of the painful things he saw, but I could tell that at times, he would be thinking of something that made him sad. He did however; enjoy telling some of the humorous tales from that time. One makes me [...]