by Helen | Aug 10, 2019 | Book Reviews
Exactly one month ago on July 9, I had a second knee replacement surgery. In the following days, I haven’t been far from my house physically, but I have had some wonderful adventures reading books. Today, August 9, in honor of National Book Lover’s Day,...
by Helen | Apr 27, 2019 | Book Reviews
On March 1, I had knee replacement surgery and began the process of recovery. For most of the month of March, I slept only a few hours at a time and in between, I would ice my leg, get comfortable on the couch, and listen to the Harper Audio version of the Chronicles...
by Helen | Mar 21, 2019 | Missions, Prayer
Lilias Trotter served her Lord in Algeria from 1888 to her death in 1926. Lilias, born to a wealthy family in England, first applied to a missions organization but was rejected because of poor health. So she went on her own as a single woman of 34 with two friends,...
by Helen | Dec 24, 2018 | Book Reviews
This has been an interesting year for me in reading, with books ranging from spiritual themes to cultural contrasts to biographies, with a few mysteries thrown in. I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered a recent article on the Gospel Coalition titled Why J. I....
by Helen | Sep 9, 2018 | Prayer
Sometimes a simple story captures such a profound truth it is unforgettable. The story below, as told by Leonard Ravenhill, is recorded in his biography In Light of Eternity by Mack Tomlinson. I think Ravenhill remembered it so clearly because it touched him deeply...
by Helen | Sep 8, 2018 | Bible Study, Prayer
Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. James 5:17-18 Even though James is telling...
by Helen | Aug 21, 2018 | Bible Study
I have always found great comfort from Revelations 22:13. It reminds us that God existed in the beginning: nothing exits apart from his plan. And it reminds us that he will triumph in the end: all the sorrows we don’t understand now will be forgotten. Recently,...
by Helen | Aug 11, 2018 | Bible Study
It may be an anomaly of English, but it seems like many of the distressing words in English start with the letter D. The dictionary informs us that de (and the closely related di and dis) is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin used to indicate privation,...
by Helen | Jul 24, 2018 | Ireland
Our tour of Ireland started in Dublin and and continued South around the bottom of the island, then up the West coast to the Giant’s Causeway in the North, ending in Belfast. Some tours go the opposite direction from Dublin to Belfast. I was happy that we got...
by Helen | Jul 13, 2018 | Bible Study
Ireland is full of sheep. As we drove through the rural areas we saw sheep everywhere. One of the first things you notice about the sheep is that they are all marked with a splash of color: red, pink, green, blue. Of course, we wanted to know why, and the answer was...