I recall a summer like this circa 1985 or so. High temperatures everyday. No rain, no summer breeze. Just hot, sticky. Back then I was one of the owners of Odd’s Bodkin, a Jean store and video rental outlet. Everyday after work, we could hardly wait to lock up for …
C. S. Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne, June 17, 1963: On how to rehearse for death and how to diminish fear. Pain is terrible, but surely you need not have fear as well? Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which …
My parents were married in 1941. The war was raging in Europe, in the Pacific islands, and throughout the Orient. My father was in the Air Force and although he didn’t know it, he was about to be shipped out to do his part in the struggle. They were two …
Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18:27 Well as usual I find myself at the last minute beginning a piece for the Encouragem. I wonder sometimes if anybody reads what I write and sometime I am afraid they do. The subject line is always …
