One Sunday when my children were very young, our family made it to church with enough time before the service for an elderly saint to ask how things were going at home. I replied that some days we didn’t seem to accomplish a thing. “Did you read them the Bible?” she asked. “Yes.” “Then you…
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Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Christmas (Part 3 of 3)
Scene 13: stage right Shepherd 1, Shepherd 2, Lazy Shepherd solo: “If He Was the Messiah” (All in beards [thirty-three years after first scene].)Light up on center stage right, desert. Shepherd 1 enters, using crook as cane, speaking to someone behind him offstage: Do you remember? (Pauses but keeps hobbling as Lazy and 2 enter,…
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Christmas (Part 1 of 3)
Here’s the start of a Christmas play my daughters and I wrote which was performed at our church and broadcast into Canada over our local radio station. Following it are stage directions. Scripture quotations taken from the NASB (New American Standard Bible) copyright by The Lockman Foundation http://lockman.org Scene 1: couch: Grandpa, Boy, Girl House…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 3. Plus: This Fall-en World
Since this last Chapter 2 segment of Chase is so small, below it I’m also posting another updated seasonal vignette originally published in 2020. Betty Rawlings looked across her Bible at the two boys devouring her gingersnaps. “It’s good to see that my reading didn’t affect your appetites.” She tousled Forrest’s hair, then smoothed it…
Carpe Diem
My husband and I were thrilled with our firstborn, but people congratulating us usually added, “Enjoy your time with her. Soon she’ll be in school and you’ll be writing again.” Sure, I’d think, in about eighteen years. The reality was almost double, although God had clearly blessed us with our miracle child. I was young,…
