OVERFLOWING
My cup overflows with beauty I cannot describe and grace I do not deserve.
Read moreGRATITUDE IS A CHOICE
By Mike Patrick Evelyn Bailey became a well respected artist in San Antonio. Her father deserted the family for another woman and left her mother to raise the children. In addition to enduring that difficulty, Evelyn (as well as one of her sisters) contracted polio as a child. Following experimental surgeries, she had a severe limp the rest of
Read more‘RESOLUTION’ DIFFERENT FROM ‘GOAL’
By Danny Minton I Am Resolved… As I stepped on the scales this morning, the LED screen came on, flickered a little, then went blank. Maybe it needs a new battery I was thinking, so I stepped off and then on again. Nothing. But the battery isn’t that old was my thinking, so I tried it one more time. This
Read moreLIFE LINES: LOOK BOTH WAYS
By Larry Baker I caught myself acting on a childhood lesson on a one-way street. I walked from a building and headed toward my car across the street. At curbside I stopped, as a voice in my head instructed, “Look both ways!” I looked first right, then left, and caught myself chuckling. “Why?” I wondered. “Traffic’s only coming from one
Read moreLAST MINUTE STOCKING STUFFERS
By Loretta Fulton For your Christmas enjoyment, here are some last minute stocking-stuffers from Spirit of Abilene. These little gems are sure to bring a smile and make you grateful for the spirit of Christmas. The top photos are from the Christmas party hosted Dec. 19 by Hillcrest Church of Christ for refugees experiencing
Read moreLIFE LINES: ‘Why did it take so long?’
By Larry Baker During the middle of worship recently, I asked myself, “Why did it take so long?” Mentally I underscored “so long?” Two carols triggered the query: “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus.” God’s ancient people lived, and died, with the promise unfulfilled for what seemed like an eternity. I know: Paul declared the promise
Read moreCHRISTMAS CAROLING IN LONDON AND ABILENE
By Darryl Tippens One might suppose that a Christmas concert in Abilene, Texas, would be a very different thing from what one experiences in London; but for me, the experiences are similar. Last Christmas my wife Anne and I traveled to London to attend a Christmas concert in Royal Albert Hall. But it was more than a concert; it was
Read moreA LESSON FROM RUDOLPH
By Mike Patrick Bob May, born to a Jewish family in New York in 1905, left for Chicago when the family lost all their wealth during the Great Depression. He found low-paying employment as an in-house advertising copywriter for Montgomery Ward. However, life became harder a few years later when a doctor diagnosed his wife, Evelyn, with cancer in 1937.
Read moreTHE GIFT OF AN ADOPTED SON
By Danny Minton It was Thanksgiving week 1973; I had just left the principal’s office and a discussion on a class problem when the school receptionist told me I had a call waiting. When I picked up the phone, it was my wife, Kathy, and she was obviously upset and in tears. I informed the principal that I had to
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