by Dianne Dougharty | Sep 6, 2012 | My Corner Chair |
It was a bitter cold January day and I was headed out that afternoon to drive three hours home to celebrate my mom’s birthday, her first since my dad died eight months earlier. The trunk was loaded, I had a few more things to get done, and then I’d be on my way. I...
by Dianne Dougharty | Aug 31, 2012 | My Corner Chair |
Why is it, Lord, we want all the good and never the bad? Is it just the way you created us? Is it human nature to feel this way? You allow both bad and good each being a part of your divine plan, accomplishing your purposes. Why is it that for us, good always equals...
by Dianne Dougharty | Aug 27, 2012 | My Corner Chair |
Father, forgive me that the focus of my life these days has been totally on myself. Self-absorption is a subtle thing– how crafty of Satan to use it to distract us from the things that matter most, such as, praise, worship, service to the needy and hurting, the...
by Dianne Dougharty | Aug 20, 2012 | My Corner Chair |
We were moving furniture from my mother-in-law’s home to the little two bedroom cabin nestled in the hills of northeastern Oklahoma, the only hills in Oklahoma I might add! As we were cleaning out drawers in the old dressers at the cabin in preparation of moving in...
by Dianne Dougharty | Aug 10, 2012 | My Corner Chair |
Have you ever traveled down a long highway unable to see anything but asphalt–just hot, black asphalt! During college, my husband agreed to fly to California and drive a car back to Oklahoma for his Uncle Eli who worked for a bank that had repossessed the car....
