I have re-read the letters Bill wrote me while he was stationed aboard ship in the Navy in 1958. They are pretty much the same as the ones Dad sent Mother in 1945 during World War II. I suppose a service person’s life can be full of monotony even in wartime. Receiving messages from home or from loved ones far away is by far the most wonderful, the most exciting, … [Read more...]
Worries-A Poem
This poem is called "Worries" I read my Streams in the Desert Journal every day for the uplifting of my spirit it brings. It’s fun to find things I’d forgotten about. On Jun 3, of this year, I found a poem I wrote on May 25, 2011. At one time I was writing in it just a night when I couldn’t sleep so the dates are mixed. I don’t care. Do you? Worry is such a sin that right … [Read more...]
I love My New Message Bible
It’s before breakfast on a Tuesday morning. I’m going to have scrambled eggs and tea in a minute, so this will be quick, but I wanted to tell you something. I love The Message Bible. Bill has a large print copy, I have a large print copy, and I have it on Kindle and I have the Message Promise Book on Kindle and the Message Proverbs too. The desire of my heart was to have it on … [Read more...]
DiVoran Lites Interviews
Do you have any kind of conflict when you talk about yourself? We love to do it, but we don’t like to get caught at it, because we’ve been taught that it isn’t modest. Modest or not, I know how I feel about the authors I love. I want to know things. I went to the town in Scotland where my favorite writer, D. E. Stevenson, once lived and I stood looking at the gray two-story … [Read more...]