Comfort a child in foster care with a suitcase, teddy bear, and a Bible. Your Daily Prayer. Your Nightly Prayer. Your Daily Bible Verse. The Crosswalk Devotional. Encouragement for Today. See All Devotionals.
Spiritual Life. Bible Study. Divorce and Remarriage. Christian Music. Contact Us. Plus Forums. The wedding day is Lakita Garth. Updated Jul 06, My little sister, Lauren, is a phenomenal singer.
But she is an amazing singer and songwriter. Right instead of settling for Mr. Right Now. Lauren called me over the holidays just to holla at a sista. She said her grandfather, John, had moved in with her family. The really hard thing was listening to her grandfather talk as if her grandmother, Mildred, was still alive.
John was finding it difficult to be alone for the first time in more than 50 years. Lauren shared their story with me.
As a young girl, Mildred volunteered to write letters to the men in her church denomination who were serving overseas in the military during WWII. She befriended a young soldier with whom she became close pen-pals, and she was heartbroken to receive the notice that he had been killed in combat. As sad as she felt, Mildred knew his family was grieving even more. They quickly became good friends and wrote each other often, and as time passed they began to sense that this friendship could be more than just a pen-pal relationship.
