Every Oklahoman has a story about today. I am no different. Thirty years ago today, around 9:20 am, I emerged from my little interior, windowless office in an elementary school to return a preschool student to his parent. She hurried him out the door without a goodbye, his daddy was an Oklahoma City firefighter. I…
My friend, Donna, lost her husband several years ago in the summer. As the holidays approached she opted out of decorating, refused invitations to holiday gatherings and retreated into sadness. “I don’t know how to get through it,” she told me repeatedly, “ I’m just trying to endure it!” Nothing I said or did seemed…
Five close friends lost their husbands during the past year. Four of them were sudden and unexpected. The fifth was told they had three months; she got five days. These husbands were godly men, men who had served the Lord their entire lives with honor and integrity. They and their wives KNOW a reunion is…
In my brief prayer prompts earlier this month we addressed voting and elections. With only 5 days till election day, our prayer should intensify. The Family Research council estimates that over two million Christians did not vote in the last election. A recent panel discussion among participants at the FRC 2024 pointed out that many…
From the beginning America valued education. Thomas Jefferson was a vocal proponent of public education as was Benjamin Franklin, Horace Mann and many others. In 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance mandating public education. One of its authors, Nathan Dane wrote “schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged”. He could not have…
For the last eighteen days, I have been calling my readers/followers to intercede for America. I have been posting brief prayer emphasis on my face book page at TonyaAnn, Writer from David Kubal’s book We Declare: 31 Days of Intercession for America. It is a call to declare the freedoms that God has already given…
If we believe in a Sovereign God and we believe the Bible to be his infallible Word, politics are hard. The state of our country is hard. Romans 13:1 says “there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” Every group of God fearing believers have…
I’m reading the chronological Bible this year and it’s fitting that during this toxic political climate that I’m in Ezekiel and Jeremiah. So many mornings I read my assigned chapters and I’m shocked at how Old Testament Israel mimics America. According to Jeremiah, the country was immersed in adultery and lust. The people couldn’t trust…
I LOVE children’s books and literature. When I was teaching one of my favorite books to share was Laurie Halse Anderson’s Thank you, Sarah. I usually included it as part of my November curriculum. The kids were always amazed, (as was I the first time) to hear the story of Sarah and how she fought…
I ordered a book last year called Reclaim a Generation by Cheryl Sacks. It is a 21 day prayer guide for schools. It’s different from the prayer guides we see in graphic posts on face book. I kept thinking about it over the past few weeks. Every morning in prayer, it came to mind. As…
