History, Real Life, and Faith
This is the third and final segment of Who is Biddy Chambers? Here are parts One and Two. What became of Oswald Chambers‘ widow? Biddy Chambers was a young woman when her husband died of complications after an emergency appendectomy. A hard working talented mother with a young child, she stayed on in Egypt ministering at the YMCA camp at Zeitoun…
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Biddy Chambers and her life in Egypt during WWI. How Biddy began to put Oswald Chambers’ words into publication
If you are a fan of the devotional My Utmost for His Highest, you have one person to thank: Biddy Chambers. Born Gertrude Hobbs in 1884 England, “Gert” suffered annual bouts of bronchitis as a child, thus limiting her time in school. Determined to excel and one day be the secretary to the Prime Minister of England, she studied shorthand in Pittman’s…
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I bid a WWII submarine veteran farewell in 2014. Ninety year-old Chester Bienkowski led a long and successful life, starting when America went to war in December 1941. He enlisted in the Navy a month later and served out of Hawai’i on diesel submarines. Some of you will remember 20% of American submarines left Pacific ports never to return. I…
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Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day–do the poppies make a difference?
The Yuletide Bride presented me with both challenges and interesting parameters when I went in search of its setting. Since the original title was “Eleven Pipers Piping,” and those pipers played a role in the inspirational romance, I needed to find the right setting where the pipers could get their instruments. As in, a place where the reeds grew that enabled them to…
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