Comfort novels can fill an emotional void during personal difficulties
The Solution of Pain
I spent eleven hours yesterday sitting at the keyboard writing. I had a deadline and had to compose a proposal to be sent out this morning. It happened. But it was hard. My forearms ached, my eyes were blurring, I could hardly sit still but I kept on it. The deadline loomed. I had to be done on time. Someone…
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Inside or Outside the Will of God?
Are you inside or outside of God’s will for your life?
Unaware of being an angel
Have you ever met an angel? I’ve been thinking about angels this weekend as my family went through a fairly traumatic experience. After all, angels usually appear in the unusual when you least expect them. Or do they? I taught my children the way to recognize an angel is by it’s first words: “Fear not.” Both the Old and New…
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Historical Fiction: Life Before the Internet?
As a graduate of UCLA, I appreciate the hand my alma mater played in the development of the Internet. I can even give a grudging nod to the self- proclaimed inventor,former Vice-President Al Gore, who insisted the government put everything on-line. That’s made a lot of stuff easier to do (including filing our taxes). Thanks, Mr. Vice President. But at work…
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Making a Difference: The Power of Observation
The power of one teacher’s observation changed my father’s life–and thus mine. Benny was a harum-scarum young man in the 1940s. The eldest child in a family of four with a dad who often wandered off, he was raised in a poor family supported by my grandmother’s job in the tool room at a local defense plant. The family took…
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