“Willa Cather’s Christmas story ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’ portrays a young man, the proverbial prodigal son, who had moved away from his family back East and was in Chicago Without food for many days, without friends, and with suicidal thoughts, he decides on Christmas Eve to steal some food from a house. He had never stolen before […]
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Prayer is Provision
That dreadful year found the people suffering through a terrible drought. No rain meant very poor crops in the bread basket of the nation; and very poor crops meant folks would soon be starving. As the drought turned into a famine, people were dying by the thousands. A famous author in this nation wrote an […]
Prayer is Covenant
He asked her to marry him on February 14, 1948, Valentine’s Day. After almost forty-two (42) years of marriage, she began to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. The disease took its debilitative control, day by day, week by week, and he worked lovingly to care for his beautiful wife who was leaving him, day by day, just […]