By Beverly Munter – I married an older man and after 51 years of a wonderful marriage, I unfortunately found myself a widow. Yes, there were children and grandchildren. But I was single, healthy and alone in my own home; especially at night when I dreamed of the past and
By Linda Menesez, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. – Mother’s Day is always a challenging time for me. Year after year, I seem to wind up standing in front of the rows of Mother’s Day cards, struggling to find a card that will please my mother, while at the same time not feel
By CarolMarie Smith – Let me share a secret with you… A simple, grateful heart is a strategy for the season into which we are moving. It will release joy in the midst of a problem; it will keep our hearts free from disappointment and help us not be critical.
By Byron Wicker- Dear People Who Keep Company with God, Psalms 45:3-4 tells us that the Lord Jesus is riding forth for the cause of truth, humility and righteousness. These three are interconnected and in a sense they are one, but they are different manifestations of the virtues of Christ.
By Olga Hermans – There is such a great need in this hour that if we who have strong marriages and homes can have vision for helping hurting marriages, our own marriage will even get better. If you have gone through a broken marriage, God can reconstruct your life and
By Nicole Montalvo – I would say that we are very close my mother and I, yet we live very far apart. My mother lives in the Netherlands, where I was born, and I live in Central Oregon. My mother loves to travel and visits often. She educates herself about
The month of May never passes without my thoughts turning toward remembering the women of my youth. My mother was a stay-at-home mom of her day. I never wanted for a hot meal, a soft bed, and readied clothes to wear. She was a cook, baker, and housekeeper that I
By Diane Baker – I am sure most submissions will say “my mom is the best”. Well of course I am going to say she is the greatest and if anything ever happened to her I would forever carry a hole in my heart. My mom, Mary C. Brown, just
By Marty Oravetz – As a mother of three, stepmother of two, grandmother of 12 and great-grandmother of one, I’ve learned that being a mother is a lifetime occupation. Every day is filled with trial and error and on the job training. A mother’s role changes everyday. Nonetheless, the
By Erin Casey – Without a dream for your future, it’s impossible to create a dream life. I recently read The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Gillebeau. The book resonated with me, but I especially liked this line: “The most important part of unconventional life planning is to be clear
By Janelle Alberts – Have you heard the one about the man with leprosy? Or two blind men who wouldn’t take no for an answer? Jesus healed them. But don’t tell anybody. That’s Jesus’ punch line. He said don’t tell anybody. After hundreds of pages, the reader of the Bible
By Nancie Carmichael – Is it time for you to take a Selah? For all of us there is season, and a time to step back to get some prospective on our lives and where we are, and maybe more importantly, where we are going. Some of my favorite times
By Nancie Carmichael – The word “Selah” intrigues me. When I was a child, my father would read a Psalm to my brother and sister and me from the King James Bible before we left for school in the morning: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
Cynthia Stone, a respected member of Peaceful Grace Community Church in Brooksville, is a regular contributor to LB. She writes about everyday occurrences that involve her efforts to make her church the best in town. Cynthia claims that Upper Hillside Community, the other church in Brooksville, has a lukewarm congregation
My granddaughter is perfect in every way—clear satin skin, tendrils of delicate pale hair like find gold floss. Her smile is engaging and her teeth glimmer. And then suddenly she cries and wriggles from me and clings to really just her sadness. It’s like a motor she has turned on
By Mary Southerland – It had been a wonderful day! We were all tired after hiking Grandfather Mountain and stopping on the way home to picnic beside a pristine North Carolina creek. Bedtime preparation was proceeding amazingly well. All that mountain air and country cooking was a natural sedative for
By Linda Menesez, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. – I was recently looking at a photo of my stepfather that was taken several years ago, when he was still physically and mentally able to take care of his house and yard. Unfortunately, time has taken away a lot of his abilities. At 89,
By Nancie Carmichael – It was time to plant again, but first I had a job to do, one I’d put off too long. So yesterday I spent the whole day in the yard, raking out last year’s pine needles and dead aspen leaves. Then I tackled the dead petunias
By Dave and Mary Jo Nutting – People sometimes ask, “Why do you do what you do? Why travel around the country and the world talking about Evolution and Creation? Why don’t you just preach the Gospel?” Well, the reason we do it is because we believe God has called
By Janelle Alberts – My first job out of college was at a writing clinic where I didn’t write at all – I checked people in at the door. I kept the appointment book. My desk was bolted to the floor in a hallway. I hated it. But when asked,
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