Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns in 1788, 100 years before the above picture was taken in Manhattan on New Year's Eve, 1988. Happy New Year! May God hold you in the palm of His hand. Should Auld Acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind Should...
Emily Ley, author, blogger, and founder of The Simplified Planner®, has written a breathtaking book for tweens called Grace Not Perfection: Believing You're Enough In A World of Impossible Expectations. It's the young-reader version of her original book, Grace Not...
1972: 4th Grade Class, Meadowbrook Elementary, Eatontown, New Jersey To The Black and Brown Girls Who Go Missing Before They Go Missing by Elisabet Velasquez Maybe it was because of the last time you ran away with the boy who looked like God. Maybe it was because of...
Like waking up from the longest dream, how real it seemed Until your love broke through I've been lost in a fantasy, that blinded me Until your love, until your love, broke through Today’s Daily Gen-X Photo is taken from a 35mm slide and features young teenage girls...
I love this picture of my brother Billy. It was taken around Thanksgiving Day 1976 in Wink, Texas. (If you wink you miss it.) I actually shot this gun on this same day. I was 9-years-old and it's the only gun I've ever fired. The kick on it was so hard and scared me...
Southern Baptist Girls’ Auxiliary Organization The Southern Baptist Church (SBC) Girls’ Auxiliary Organization began in 1913 or 1914. It was designed for school-aged girls and originally called the Sunbeam Societies or Sunbeams. In the 1970s, the organization was...
If this world makes you crazy And you've taken all you can bear You call me up Because you know I'll be there. True Colors, Cyndi Lauper, 1986 I heard they found Amy's body in the bathroom. The early reports said she fell and hit her head. I never heard the cause of...
"We can close our eyes, pretend the cords don't exist, but we can't cut them. They span time and generations, bind us together through the angriest years, the deepest heartaches, through silence and distance, and eventually, they reel us in and carry us home." --Patti...
Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be...
I entered the season of Lent with great expectations and even greater plans. I printed out Lenten worksheets for the whole family and taped them up in the kitchen. As a family, we committed to giving up eating out for 40 days. We promised to pray for certain people...
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given in compensation for what you've been through. --Whitney Phipps I get up every morning around 5 o'clock and I sit with my coffee on the...