Biddy Chambers’ reaction to all the copies of My Utmost for His Highest destroyed during the London Blitz.
What Does Home Mean to You?
What does home mean to you?
Resiliency Post-WWI: Mrs. Oswald Chambers (Part III)
Biddy Chambers demonstrated even more resiliency after Oswald Chamber’s unexpected death in 1917. Left penniless with a four year-old in the middle of a YMCA camp in Egypt, Biddy had a choice. She could fall apart, or she could accept her circumstances and move forward. The YMCA leadership in Egypt asked her to stay on throughout the war. It made…
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The Importance of the Arts in Crisis
My family has learned the importance of the arts in crisis. We’ve just come through the Sonoma County fires and the arts helped. How? When you have six adults, five children, three cats and a dog evacuated from home for a week, you need anything you can get to ease the tension. The children, in particular, needed the arts to…
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Widowhood Resiliency and Mrs. Oswald Chambers (Part II)
Widowhood resiliency is a skill I hope to never need. I don’t think any woman wants to learn it. For Mrs. Oswald Chambers, widowhood came young–she was thirty-four years old when Oswald Chambers died in Egypt on November 15, 1917. One hundred years ago this week. Left without a pension in the middle of the desert surrounded by ANZAC troops…
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Oswald Chambers’ Death: 100 Years Later
All the facts around Oswald Chambers’ wartime death.
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