Valentine’s Day can be a hard day for so many. Widows missing their husbands, singles wondering why they still haven’t found their other “halves,” wives receiving the casual flowers from a husband who mistreats them the rest of the year. The reasons are completely different for each person, but the theme is the same: Valentine’s Day is the day when…
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Desperate housewives. It’s a term with which most of us are familiar, even if we’ve never watched the show. For those of you who (like me) are among that group of the slightly confused, here’s Wikipedia’s summary: “Desperate Housewives follows the lives of a group of women [who] work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes, and…
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“Just make yourself at home.” How often have you heard that phrase? Sometimes you genuinely do feel “at home,” as though you can plop down on the couch, grab the nearest blanket, and sip your cup of coffee without embarrassment. Sometimes, you feel just the opposite. Moving the blanket will destroy its artistic effect. And if you spill coffee on…
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These 100 Spanish phrases may be helpful to you if you, like me, are: convinced that raising your child in a bilingual or multilingual environment is ideal AND not completely bilingual yourself. They could also come in handy if you’re going to be volunteering at a Spanish-speaking orphanage, school, or simply living at home with a Spanish-speaking host family that…
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“…I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance…” Rev. 2:2, ESV “If my Savior calls me to seal his Holy Gospel with my blood, his will is perfect.” – Pierre Durand. Pierre Durand, a Huguenot pastor in Roman Catholic France, did seal the gospel with his blood. His captors executed him in 1732. While Pierre’s words call us to…
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