I am a woman in my nineties who has been a believer for almost seventy-five years. My purpose in writing is twofold. I am still working out many issues about what it means to be “in Christ’, and I find that writing things down somehow helps me clarify my thoughts. The other reason I write is to share some of my insights with others who may have the same questions. In sharing ideas and experiences, I think we help each other grow. I am definitely still learning. I am a conservative Christian, but I try to live under Grace rather than Law. I believe that we need to study Scripture vigilantly, because it is one of the two guides we have to the will of God for us. The other is the Person of Jesus Christ, and He is to be our example and mentor as we sojourn here on Earth. With these as our teachers, I believe we can come to live lives which glorify God and effectively share His Good News of redemption and forgiveness.
It has now been a a little over a year since I put myself in lockdown. I have found that the “Groundhog Day” effect of repeating the same actions day after day without any distractions like friends or family or…
(Disclaimer: the opinions expressed here – written in 2010 – are purely my own.) I have lived a long time, and I cannot remember any time in my life when politics was as divisive or as scary. Our gradual cultural…
There are times when I think that all the values I had been taught as a child have been forgotten, and that the world I live in now is like living in some alternate universe, where up is down and…
It is Christmas time again… but this year it is, for many of us, a very different Christmas from any we have experienced before. Many of us are still in voluntary lock-down or quarantined. Many face Christmas without seeing any…
This has been some year. Between the devastating and deadly effects of COVID-19, the chaotic political situation, the presence of armed mobs springing up prepared to fight fellow Americans in the name of political differences, and adding to all this…