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FURTHER UP and FURTHER IN
By Kay Etheredge In a split second on New Year’s Eve, our lives were changed. I remember once reading a favorite writer say that when we get stopped at a light or get stuck in traffic we grumble, but we…
SHOW ME
By Kay Etheredge A new building is underway just down the sidewalk. Its completion will mean much more ministry will be able to happen. More lives will be changed and more families will be made whole. Men will be freed…
A Life Worth Living
“I was spending more money on drinking than in paying the electric bill so I moved out and started living in my car,” says Phillip Helms in explaining why he came to Brother Bryan Mission. “I fell and hit my…
IMPERFECT
by Kay Etheredge There is a dad I’ve never met who drove from a suburb early every morning for months to drive his son to work. He also drove back in the afternoons and picked him up. His son, grown,…
THE SONG
By Kay Etheredge It was roughly thirty-eight years ago, and it was a stupid song. It wasn’t even a real song, but more of a jingle. But in this jingle was something offensive. My Daddy was dying and we all…
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By Kay Etheredge Our grandchildren have recently discovered that downstairs in our house is a classroom. We homeschooled our three children and nestled in the deepest part of our basement is the classroom. It functioned first as Jim’s dad’s “drawing…
MY DADDY’S SICK
by Kay Etheredge I answered the phone on my once a week desk several weeks ago. Mike, calling from the front desk, said he was sending a lady and her son down to this building because her son needed to…
DON’T WAIT
by Kay Etheredge My mother died on April 1. It seems crazy to die on April Fools’ Day. I used to be a big prankster on that day but I can honestly say I haven’t done a prank on that…