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Weekly Devotionals
A Good Sleeping Pill
When I was a little girl this poem hung on the wall of the room where I slept in our...
Weekly Devotionals
Franconia – Part 6
**We conclude our visit to Franconia with this week's devotional. We pray you have been blessed, encouraged and inspired by Elisabeth's...
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Franconia, Part Five
**Continuing with part five of six devotionals about Elisabeth’s beloved Gale Cottage… There was a lovely pine grove behind the...
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Franconia, Part Four
**This week we continue to explore Gale Cottage through Elisabeth’s eyes… In the back parlor were crumbling leather-bound books, a...
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Franconia – Part Two
**This week we continue our visit to Gale Cottage in Franconia, New Hampshire where Elisabeth's mother, Katherine, recalls her honeymoon...
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Franconia – Part 1
**Well it's finally time to pack our suitcases for Franconia! As we steep ourselves in summer and sabbath resting, what...
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A Letter for Father’s Day
**Today we share a second letter that Elisabeth wrote to her father in 1952. What a precious glimpse we have...
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A Small Section of the Visible Course
The house where I was born, at 52 Rue Ernest Laude in Brussels, looks exactly as it does in the picture...
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Child-Parent Relations
**Note from Elisabeth: Dan Tompkins, fourteen-year-old son of my dear friend Barb of Tucson, Arizona, wrote this for his school...
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A Word for Fathers
While visiting Columbia Bible College in South Carolina, I found in the library a little book called Father and Son,...
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The Gift of Work
The principal cause of boredom is the hatred of work. People are trained from childhood to hate it. Parents often...
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The Howard Home
As we conclude this season’s focus on relationships, we share a beautiful portrait of the Howard home, the home of Elisabeth’s...
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A Transformed Marriage
Those of you who pray for God's working through my speaking will be glad to know of one who had...
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Little Mary
We see her first, that little Mary (may I say little? I think she was a teenager), as a simple...
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My Father’s Remembrance of His Father
In honor of Father’s Day this weekend, we share as a Devotional this special reflection from Elisabeth… “When I was...
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A Life’s Work
Few women today are concerned about ironing sheets, but it is still possible to let many other things take precedence...