Elisabeth Allen 6 Minute Read In a spirit of honestly I must confess that I won’t be thirty for a few weeks yet, but stick with me, okay? So…the truth? A family friend just wrote it in an email, Although you feel that you are getting older, you are still in the prime of your life. I read those words…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read Sometimes we’re tired. And sometimes we’re beyond tired. I think it’s hard for us — as women living in at this time in this world — to know what to do when we’re beyond tired. Everything in us is crying for rest. But how do we stop and catch our breath in a world that…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read It was a bright, sunny day in spring when we gathered in the chapel for her funeral. I was raised in country chapels and this city chapel was a bit different. There were no headstones and overgrown grass in the graveyard and no rugged oaks or drooping willows — just a sheet of concrete, punctuated…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read She lost her mother when she was sixteen. Her friends were talking about careers and giggling about boys. Her heart was heavy with the weight of a father to comfort and a family of little boys and girls to raise. She was a girl grieving her mother and yet overnight she had become a mother…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read Maybe it was, whatever your age, a schoolgirl crush that will make you shrug and smile in years to come. Maybe it was a deep, genuine, womanly love for the man you hoped to marry and know you’ll never forget. Or maybe it was both a little bit more and a little bit less. You…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read I was raised without a TV. Perhaps that’s why Tsh Oxenrider’s passion for a life that isn’t dominated by a television resonated. To me, it makes perfect sense, of course there’s more to life and entertainment than a television. Entertainment, in all its forms, is so easily accessible in our technology-soaked culture; we can hardly…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read Mincepies are unsophisticated, homely and above all, tasty mouthfuls of comfort and joy. I love their simplicity and the surprise and delight of biting through dusty, dry pastry into sweet, spicy fruit. Traditional Christmas fare in England, I think they’re tasty at any time, but there’s something about their appearance and aroma that makes me want…
Elisabeth Allen 2 Minute Read I sometimes wonder what Mary was doing the moment before the angel entered her life and said, Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you … (Luke 1:28) I wish I knew whether she was cooking or cleaning or doing something else altogether. Perhaps she was keeping an eye on her little brothers and sisters…
Elisabeth Allen 3 Minute Read God loves women, redeems women, empowers women – then and now. On the day we call Christmas, He could have simply arrived on earth, yet He chose to enter it through a virgin’s womb. (The Women of Christmas p.122) Liz Curtis Higgs‘ Christmas devotional journey is subtitled Experience the Season Afresh with Elizabeth, Mary and…
Elisabeth Allen 3 Minute Read Family gives you context and origin gives you understanding and the family tree of Christ always gives you hope. (The Greatest Gift p.ix) First of all, I think you ought to know, The Greatest Gift – a day-by-day advent devotional by Ann Voskamp – is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Seriously!…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Do you remember when you were a little girl and it was sometimes REALLY hard to honour your parents? At that age “honour” was usually spelled o-b-e-y or r-e-s-p-e-c-t. The trouble is that now we’re all grown up — with our own faith, ideals and values as well as our own personalities and preferences in…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Girls live at home after one-and-twenty for a variety of reasons that I, personally, find fascinating. If you live at home then it’s probably for one of these reasons: You have a personal and strong conviction that living at home is God’s plan for unmarried and childless women. You don’t have any money for rent…
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