Difficult Times
Story of the Week July 3 2009, Give it to God
Hello, friends. Hope you are enjoying the arrival of summer. Just a couple of announcements: –For those of you who have been thinking about writing to Extreme Makeovers to submit JoAnn Cayce’s name for a new roof for their gym, here is how you do that: Go to www.ExtremeHomeMakeovers.com and click on the right-hand side [...]
Story of the Week June 19, 2009, Dimes from Heaven
Hello, friends. Over the past several years, we’ve shared stories about “pennies from heaven.” Many of us can’t help but believe that pennies are little hugs from our angels. Do you remember the young soldier who went to Iraq, and found pennies in the sand there throughout his tour of duty? (The soldiers all turn [...]
Story of the Week April 9 2009
Hello, angel friends. Before sending you an Easter poem, I’d like to share a blog that I received from Ron McConnell of Xzone Radio. He had been going through a difficult period, as we all do from time to time, and was wondering if the stress would ever lift. “I was working downstairs in my [...]
Story of the Week 3/27/09
Hello, friends and angel-lovers. Lent is almost over. Be sure to make Holy Week extra special by taking the time to read each version of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Pay attention to the angels and their special appearances during this holy time. As we know, they are so much more than little cupids… [...]
Story of the Week 2/14/09 Spirited Encounter
Jim Snyder would consider himself an ordinary man living an ordinary life, surely not one that involves angel sightings.But when his wife died of pancreatic cancer, Jim was devastated by her loss. He tried to hold everything together and deal with his grief. But as months passed and Jim’s heartache continued, “I began asking God [...]
Perfect Timing
When Catherine Scott was a little girl, money was very tight, especially right after her father was ordained as a minister. “My mother often reached the end of her grocery money long before the end of the month,” Catherine says. “She used to send me into my father’s closet to go through the pockets of [...]
Pennies From Heaven
When a mother becomes ill, or needs to work in order to help support the family, oldest sisters sometimes become Junior Moms. Donna Ronio of Lawton, Oklahoma took on that role when her mother worked to support her six children. “All my life I have felt like the guardian of the family,” Donna says, “the [...]
Not All That Interested
Now that their children are grown, Cindy and Jim Hawkins run a closet organizer business out of their home. A few years ago, they moved to a house in a new community, and of course, the closet business came too. Cindy was nervous about the move; it would be hard to build up a new [...]
Meat Delivery
Ilene Cederquist’s husband had been out of work for weeks, and with five young children to feed, life was hard. “It seemed ages since we had had meat,” Ilene recalls. “But it was too expensive.” How she longed for a beef roast or hamburgers. Ilene’s husband searched for work each day, but he was too [...]
Life’s Blessings Often Come Disguised as Troubles
To Terence Emptage, it was just another day on the farm he managed in Cheshire, North Wales. He was plowing a field, a job he had done many times. The fact that the field was on top of a cliff (and one side of it steeply dropping into a valley some 150 feet below!) didn’t [...]
