There is a restaurant in Claremont that I really like called Le Pain Quotidien. The name means “The Daily Bread.” I thought about Le Pain Quotidien this morning as I was reflecting upon the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread…” Freshly baked bread is so wonderful, especially when it first comes from [...]

I read a portion of Richard Foster’s Devotional Classics* this morning in my quiet time. I read about Madame Jeanne Guyon, a French woman who spent nearly twenty-five years of her life imprisoned in Vincennes and the Bastille because of her religious beliefs. A gifted writer, she had a way of writing which ushers the [...]

I made a new friend last night. On Facebook and face to face. When we friended each other on Facebook, we found that we had 16 friends in common! How did we not meet each other before this point? I have no idea, but I’m glad we have met now. As we were sharing with [...]

In preparing to speak with a women’s group on the topic of prayer, I used a “why pray/how to pray/when to pray” format. I was most amazed by what I learned about in fleshing out the “how to pray” portion of my presentation.  It seems that there are as many ways to pray as there are [...]

In Luke 14 Jesus tells the parable of the dinner.  The man in the parable is giving a big dinner; he has the table loaded with good food and he sends his servant out to those to whom the invitation was sent to attend.  As we read, “…they all alike began to make excuses.  The [...]