When Harvey Dunn painted his oil painting, “The Prairie is My Garden,” in 1950, he couldn’t have known that I’d hang a postcard-sized print of it on my writing desk. The subject, a pioneer woman, stands in the wind of the prairie, the shiny blade of a knife in her right hand and a beautifulContinue reading “A Picture of Truth and Beauty”
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A Beautiful Thing
I once spoke at a women’s event where a man, who was helping prepare food, thought it enormously funny that I was both a lady speaker and a Southern Baptist. He joked that he would turn his chair around every time I opened my mouth, as famously happened at the Southern Baptist Convention when AnneContinue reading “A Beautiful Thing”
Glorify God in Your Body
It’s a predictable pattern. A young teen does not feel safe in her home. Alcohol changes people she loves into monsters who cannot be trusted. This week, her little sister came to ask me to pray for her. “Sister cuts her legs and arms,” the little one said. Harm begets harm. When the Apostle PaulContinue reading “Glorify God in Your Body”
