by Eileen Parsons | Nov 20, 2013 | Articles
We Thank Thee By: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Stanza 3) For this new morning with its light, Father, we thank Thee. For rest and shelter of the night, Father, we thank Thee For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends, Father in heaven, we...
by Eileen Parsons | Jun 1, 2013 | Articles
I walked passed the house two or three afternoons per week on my way home from after-school activities. I guess it would be more accurate to say that I ran passed it. It was a shack of a house with boarded up windows, an old man and two young men nearly always...
by Eileen Parsons | May 4, 2013 | Articles
“What is he up to?” I asked myself, heading down the hallway one morning. The tapping and scraping sounds grew louder the further I went down the hall. Daniel was the only one down there. I opened his bedroom door to find him lounging on his bed, reading a book and...
by Eileen Parsons | Nov 7, 2012 | Articles
“Fear not for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame...
by Eileen Parsons | Aug 29, 2012 | Articles
“Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.” Romans 6:6 I’m in prison. I built it. It’s my own. Every inch, each bar, the lock, the concrete floor – every...