November
It’s not here yet, but it’s coming. I read this poem tonight and thought it expressed so beautifully the idea that enduring in hope is something God has encouraged us to do in His providential works of creation. Photo by Anna Friedrich The leaves are fading and falling, The winds are rough and wild, The birds have ceased [...]

Anne Steele — Bloom Where You’re Planted
This is the last of my presentation to the OPC ladies. Nancy Wilson recently wrote about the importance of serving those nearby, and Anne Steele’s life was a wonderful example of this. In a little town called Broughton in southern England, not far from where some of Jane Austen’s novels are set, Anne Steele was born [...]

Anne Bradstreet–Puritanical Role Model
The next segment of my talk to the OPC ladies on October 3: “If we had no Winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; If we did not sometimes taste the adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” Those words were written by Anne Bradstreet. We know of her today because she was the first published [...]

Two Huguenot Queens

The Life and Death of Two Margarets
This is another vignette I presented in my talk to the OPC ladies at their retreat. Now we will travel back in time a couple hundred years before Elizabeth Prentiss, and hop over the stormy Atlantic to the rough and rocky land of Scotland. The famous Scottish reformer John Knox had fled to Geneva to escape [...]