Back in 2018, after being diagnosed with pre-endometrial cancer in my endometrial lining, I did something strange as I began the visits with the oncologist and started treatment. I began to knit a baby blanket. Seeing as how I had never really knit anything before and I was as seemingly as far away from having... Continue Reading →
I have written several blog posts now about Corrie Ten Boom. I just enjoy reading her works and reading about her life. I recently came across something that gave me a new perspective on a story that I thought I knew pretty well. I was reading through one of YouVersion’s devotional plans, “Life Lessons from... Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas!! And Happy Last Day of The 12 Days of Blogmas 2021! I have now written more blog posts in the month of December than I did for the entire rest of 2021...maybe I can keep a bit of this momentum going into the new year. I wrote both last year and also earlier... Continue Reading →
Happy Day 8 of the 12 Days of Blogmas! Today we are looking at the history behind another classic Christmas carol. In 1863, the American Civil War was raging and in Massachusetts, a young son named Charles defied his father’s wishes and left to join the Union Army. He sent his father a letter after... Continue Reading →
On Christmas Eve 1967, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a Christmas sermon at his home congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King had been asked by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to deliver a series of five lectures for their Massey Lecture Series and the sermon was broadcast as the... Continue Reading →
Last year at Christmas, I wrote a blog post entitled, “Christmas 1944” about Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie’s story remains one of my favorites and I have a collection of five books written by or about Corrie Ten Boom. I wrote my post last year about the experience Corrie had in the Ravensbruck infirmary at Christmas... Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Stepping off the midnight train on New Year’s Day about Corrie Ten Boom’s release from the concentration camp Ravensbruck just in time to ring in New Year’s Day a free woman as her sister Betsie had foreseen. Backing up a few days before this new found freedom,... Continue Reading →
“I can’t imagine a man enjoying a book and only reading it once.”CS Lewis “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”CS Lewis “Clearly, one must read every good book at least once every 10 years.”CS Lewis... Continue Reading →
On Easter weekend, fifty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama and penned a letter that continues to hold significance culturally, socially, and spiritually. While in jail, Dr. King had been handed a newspaper that contained a letter from white Alabaman clergymen making an argument that although... Continue Reading →
Rachel F. Jean 