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A Specific Prayer Answered

In recent blogs I’ve talked about prayer. This morning I want to share with you a specific answer to one of those arrow prayers that go up throughout a day, where a situation arises and you just need God’s help. In Friday I looked down and noticed the sapphire was missing from the ring My daughter had bought for me several years ago. ‘Oh no!’ I yelled My darling husband came running when he heard my cries of alarm. ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘I’ve lost the stone from my ring.’ ‘Were were you? What were you doing?’ ‘How do I know? I … Continue reading →

Hell Hath No Fury As A Woman Scorned

I immediately thought of the title of this blog after hearing about actress Ellen Barkin’s successful auction. For all of you who didn’t follow the ugly, bitter, lengthy divorce battle that took place between Barkin and her billionaire husband Ron Perelman (which made headlines for months)—you don’t know what you missed. (I say that very tongue-in-cheek.) It was nasty, it was brutal, and it put what occurred between Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner’s characters in the 1989 movie “War of the Roses” to shame. Long story short, after six years of marriage, Perelman surprised Barkin with divorce papers… and the … Continue reading →

A Place To Turn ON Your Cellphones… And Let Them Ring, Ring, Ring

You are told to turn off your cellphone ringer in church, in the movie theater, and in courtrooms. But now, a venue where you would expect the same rule to apply is actually encouraging you to let your phone ring. It’s a unique concert where the cellphone takes center stage. Not only can your cellphone ring—it should. Chicago newspapers are reporting that U.S. jazz composer David Baker is encouraging people to use their phones during the debut performance of “Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra” that will open the 20th anniversary season of the Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival next … Continue reading →