The inspiration behind Mrs. Oswald Chambers’ biography
Kid Books for Christmas 2017
I’ve been buying kid books for Christmas this year. (Actually, I buy kid books every year for Christmas.) Since none of the recipients read this blog (indeed, several can’t read), I feel safe talking about them here. Besides, I’m not going to tell you who is getting what. Preschool boy He’s a rough and tumbling kid who loves to move…
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The London Blitz Test for Biddy’s Resilience (Part IV)
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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