April, 2020

• 6 April

  Don’t Ration Your Gratitude!

  

  My dad really saved things—old gas receipts from 1960, the bill for my sister’s birth in 1968 ($160), his yearbook from 1947, and a war ration booklet from 1942 that belonged to my grandfather.  Ration booklets held stamps that Americans had to shop with to purchase rationed items such as ...

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• 2 April

  The Beauty Treatment During Sheltering at Home

  

  Before a girl’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics. (Esther 2:12) A Christian friend uses free Line app to lead Bible study and ...

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• 1 April

  God is Awakening Christians to Have Faith in Him.

  

  I think about why Covid-19 epidemic comes to the world. Is it for Christians to preach good news more eagerly? Is it God wants to save more lost souls? Recently I prayed through Zoom with my Moms in Prayer group. I heard a mom giving thanks to God for a ...

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March, 2020

• 30 March

  “Time of Trial”

  

  Most of us cannot remember a time when we have seen our daily lives halted as we are seeing today. It is truly a time of trial for our country, and our world, as this invisible virus continues to make people ill.   This new germ keeps us on edge, along ...

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• 23 March

  Portrait in Friendship

  

  The first lady needed a friend, someone who would be trustworthy and caring, with her best interests at heart. Mary Todd Lincoln found that friend in her dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley. Madame Elizabeth, as she was known, was a gifted seamstress; her mother having taught her as a young girl. She ...

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• 16 March

  Without Genuine Love, It’s Just Noise

  

  Musikalisch means musical in German, and my German grandfather truly was musically gifted. He never took a music lesson but played piano, drums, banjo, and ukulele very well. In 1930, when swing music played by the big bands was all the rage, he started his own 10-piece band in our ...

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• 13 March

  Do Not Fear Sickness, But Proclaim His Truth

  

  As Coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads from one place to another throughout the world, the OMF missionary Aril Varosky shares with me the strategy of having peace of God during the unknown situation.  Each morning, cover you and your loved one with the blood of Jesus Chris by proclaiming His promise through ...

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• 9 March

  When is Your Second Birthday?

  

  Do you remember the birthday parties of your childhood, old black and white photos of little friends wearing party hats, blowing paper horns, and eating cake and ice cream?  In those days, parties were often a dress up affair, little girls in brightly colored dresses with white anklet socks and ...

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• 2 March

  Be Content, My Soul

  

  When my grandchildren ask me what I did when I was young, I find my answers to be simplistic. In an age of electronic games, multiple sports teams, and personal phones that often isolate us from real human contact, telling my little people about roller skating with old metal skates, ...

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February, 2020

• 24 February

  Lesson from A Sunken Ship

  

                                                    “not even God himself could sink this ship” (employee of the White Star Line, 1911 launch of Titanic) They named her Titanic and it suited ...

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