Tag Archives: Joy

Are you excited about the New Year that awaits us just around the corner?  Are you thinking up new things to do, or see, or simply experience?  Or are you considering the steps you can take to make life a bit easier, like slowing down your pace, or cutting back ...

This is a story, set at Christmastime, about a little girl who lived in central Illinois and sent a letter to Santa in December, 1908. She graciously forgave him for overlooking her home the year before, blaming it on the smallness of the stockings at the family fireplace—too hard to ...

My husband and I taught a 5th and 6th grade Sunday school class at our church for several years. We still worship with many of our former students, some are parents themselves. We used many teaching tools through the years, everything from recorded stories to games and crafts were utilized ...

Marie lived many years ago. She came from a poor farm family in Kentucky, and left home at seventeen to be married. She lived an ordinary life, filled with hard work and little extra. But Marie had a God-given musical talent. She could play piano, guitar, and violin “by ear.” ...

“…the world is a work of art, set before all for contemplation so that through it the wisdom of Him who created it should be known…” (Basil) In the busyness of today, we seldom stop to experience wonder. By its very definition, wonder is invoked by something amazing, mysterious, never ...