History, Real Life, and Faith
I don’t know about you, but I’ve tried to handle family relationships with peace over the years. This Thanksgiving I’m not having problems, but in the past, I’ve run into difficulties. It’s not my fault if the in-laws, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles and even children don’t agree with my brilliance. Er, don’t see eye to eye with me on a variety of…
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We are thrilled this Thanksgiving because some of our vegetarian relatives will be joining us. I’m not sure if they’ve ever been with us on this holiday that centers around eating turkey. Menu aside, it’s about time we got together! As in so many things, we’re all trying hard to accommodate each other’s needs, which include finicky toddlers, nursing moms…
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This is the third and final segment of Who is Biddy Chambers? Here are parts One and Two. What became of Oswald Chambers‘ widow? Biddy Chambers was a young woman when her husband died of complications after an emergency appendectomy. A hard working talented mother with a young child, she stayed on in Egypt ministering at the YMCA camp at Zeitoun…
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Biddy Chambers and her life in Egypt during WWI. How Biddy began to put Oswald Chambers’ words into publication
If you are a fan of the devotional My Utmost for His Highest, you have one person to thank: Biddy Chambers. Born Gertrude Hobbs in 1884 England, “Gert” suffered annual bouts of bronchitis as a child, thus limiting her time in school. Determined to excel and one day be the secretary to the Prime Minister of England, she studied shorthand in Pittman’s…
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I attended a memorial service for a submarine veteran in fall 2014. Ninety year-old Chester Bienkowski led a long and successful life, starting when America went to war in December 1941. He enlisted in the Navy a month later and served out of Hawai’i on diesel submarines. Some of you will remember 20% of American submarines left Pacific ports never…
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