Laced With Grace – Christian Devotions

A popular American television show and movie many years ago demonstrated the anxiety of a falsely accused man who continually ran to escape capture and imprisonment. The tension in the show was palpable. Today refugees from natural disasters and war-torn countries come into our homes with the evening newscast, but…

This week I took a metaphorical walk down memory lane and rearranged the bits and pieces in my cedar chest. The task was long overdue. Over the decades, I had tossed items in without labels and without regard for their fragile nature. I had taken items out and replaced them…

We’ve begun a new year in the cold. To those of us who swelter most of the time, the cold weather is a brief, refreshing change. The cold allows the fruit trees to grow dormant and complete their cycles properly, it kills insects on the winter greens in the garden…

As a lover of all fabrics and an amateur seamstress, I have often considered the mention of linen in the Bible. Pharaoh gave Joseph a linen garment to honor him. “Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments…

In the twenty-five years I directed high school drama, I came to dread the first read-through after casting a show: there was always “drama” in drama. I told the cast I based my casting decisions on the actor’s previous experience and devotion as well as his or her size, shape…