Drawn from my archives In one of his sermons, Charles Spurgeon shared a parable of a man from the East who came upon a mountain. Looking down from the mountain, he saw the sun shining brightly on a river stream. It looked beautiful from afar,

There's a song that we used to sing back in the day, and maybe you know it too. It goes like this, "It only takes a spark to get a fire going, and soon all those around will warm up to it's glowing..." My sister Bonnie and I used to sing

When my friend Elaine comes over, she makes herself at home. Her family knows where the fridge is, they know where the drinks are, and they know that they don't have to knock when they visit. They're welcome anytime and the door is always open.

It seems that everywhere I turn lately I see a verse with a similar message telling me, "the Lord goes before you," and "He will make a way." With that I'm reminded of the many times that things have worked in my favor. The days when things