Laced With Grace – Christian Devotions

She was a surprise addition to our family when my brother was ten and I was nearly fourteen. I rocked her. I read her Sleeping Beauty. By the time we shared a room, I was a teen with homework, makeup, hair rollers and dates. She followed me everywhere and learned…

One of my former students was at church recently with her new baby girl. She carried the infant close in a sling hung from her shoulder. I have also watched a niece capably cradle her littlest in this way to free her hands for her other two small children. These…

There’s something blessed about the night hours when the clamor of the world stills. The moonlight sweeps over the lawn and night breezes stir the trees. There’s less traffic on the highway and the animals bed down. God speaks to me in those times. I don’t hear Him audibly, yet…

In midlife, I have suffered from occasional power surges when I couldn’t get cool enough. That’s one reason I enjoy the cool weather so much. A grown woman can only remove so many clothes in civil society. Since the electric cooperative that serves us has more customer use on the…

“The cows are out.” I hate those words. I said them to myself a few Mondays ago. I had had a blissful morning looking up scriptures, praying and posting my May entries for this website. I had risen early to think and write. I came out of my reverie about…