Thermostat or Thermometer?

It was very cold in our house. I was the first one awake that morning, and as I scampered through our personal Arctic I checked the thermometer. It said 50 degrees. I called Mr. Furnace to come. In the meantime, I turned on the kitchen stove, opened the door and sat...

A Birth Certificate for Heaven

When I had to go for a new passport, it meant I had to dig out a document that I don’t look at very often – my birth certificate. I had to prove to the State Department that I exist! Of course, I have to be careful with my birth certificate – one...

You Are the Light of Your World

Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses – those are just some of the literary classics written by Robert Louis Stevenson. He must have had a way with words from the time he was a boy. Anne Graham Lotz tells of a night in his boyhood when his nanny just...

Knowing How Long You’ll Live

I got to thinking the other day about some of the close calls in my life – those moments that could have been my last, but obviously they weren’t. There was the night that a drunk driver totaled our car with all of our family in it, but thank God it...

You Are the Light of Your World

Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses – those are just some of the literary classics written by Robert Louis Stevenson. He must have had a way with words from the time he was a boy. Anne Graham Lotz tells of a night in his boyhood when his nanny just...

Heaven’s Waiting for You

It turned out to be one of TV’s biggest and most surprising hits of the time – “Touched By an Angel.” Actually, CBS almost canceled it after its first season. But they responded to all this mail they got, encouraging them to give it another...