Mention carrot cake at my house and someone will inevitably recall ‘the carrot cake incident.’ One year for my birthday, my husband came home with a grocery store carrot cake. In my mind, carrot cake was definitely not for birthdays, and his bringing it home showed a lack of understanding of proper birthday etiquette at …
The Lamb of God
In the musical presentation, “Lamb of God*,” at the very darkest moment of the last week of Jesus Christ’s life-the death of Jesus on the cross, his mother, Mary, sings: He who healed our sorrows, here was bruised and broken. He whose love no end knows, here was forsaken, left all alone. Here despair cries …
Here is Hope
Just before the last week of His mortal life, Jesus was sent word that His friend, Lazarus, was desperately sick. Jesus, knowing what was to come, delayed His return to Judea, and Lazarus died before He came. When Jesus came to the home of Lazarus, his sisters were grief stricken and both said essentially the …
Of Most Worth
I read a very poignant article in a magazine about love and worth. In it, the author interviewed Brother Michael Wilcox in his home and had a conversation with him about women’s worth. On his wall, she saw a scripture from the story of Jacob and Rachel which prompted the path of the discussion. He …
Wonders of His Love
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” (Luke 2:7) The scene is filled with awe-God of worlds without number, Creator and Savior, come to earth as a helpless babe, born in a stable …