Wit & Wisdom
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
A Mother’s Day Poem by Ruth Bell Graham
Listen, Lord, a mother’s praying low and quiet: listen, please. Listen what her tears are saying, see her heart upon its knees; lift the load from her bowed shoulders till she sees and understands, You, Who hold the worlds together, hold her problems in Your hands. from “Clouds are the Dust of His Feet” …
A devotional by Ruth Bell Graham
Pure Refreshment from “More Letters from Ruth’s Attic: 31 Daily Insights on Following Christ”
A Poem by Ruth Bell Graham
“May She Have Daughters” from “Sitting by My Laughing Fire” by Ruth Bell Graham
The Strongest Love – A devotional by Ruth Bell Graham
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. . . . God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6, 8)
Broken Bread – a poem by Ruth Bell Graham
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. (Luke 24:30)
A Poem by Ruth Bell Graham
I climbed the hills through yesterday: and I am young and strong again; my children climb These hills with me, and all the time they shout and play; their laughter fills the coves among the rhododendron and the oak till we have struggled to the ridge top where the chestnuts grew. Breathless, tired, and content …
A Poem by Ruth Bell Graham
“Sitting by My Laughing Fire” by Ruth Bell Graham
Faith Versus Reason
“Faith is being sure of what we hope for. It is being certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1) Picasso was once quoted as “praying for strength to transcend the limits his reason was trying to impose on him.” His paintings show that he succeeded admirably. However, there are limits imposed by reason …
Ruth Graham’s childhood in China
Ruth Bell Graham was born in China in 1920, where her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at a hospital north of Shanghai.