Author: Kathy Sheldon Davis
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A Woman’s Toughest Job – Proverbs 14
Building and maintaining healthy family relationships might be the hardest job I’ve ever had, but I’ll never regret taking it on. “The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down” (Proverbs 14:1 NIV). When I approached the scene of an accident near Junction City several years ago,…
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How I Control My Tongue – Proverbs 13
By the time we drove out of the parking lot of the Grant County Fairgrounds in John Day, Oregon yesterday my head was full of disorganized snippets of a thousand conversations. The information sharing at our first family reunion in more than twenty years had been intense. “From the fruit of their lips people enjoy…
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Too Lazy to Eat Pizza – Proverbs 12
Have you ever been hungry but were too lazy to take a bite of your pizza? Unless you were sick, that would probably never happen. Yet in Proverbs 12 I find references to a person who is just that lazy. “The lazy don’t roast their prey, but hard workers receive precious riches” (Proverbs 12:27 CEB).…
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Holy Drama Queen – Proverbs 11
Does a word ever occupy your mind – and then you end up having to look it up in the dictionary to give it a rest? It was that way with me this weekend. The word was arrogance, “showing an offensive attitude of superiority.” “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom”…
