A PRAYER ON MOVING

(For Preachers’ Wives)
Dear God, I do not know about Eternity— Just where it is or how will Heaven be, But this I pray—of wood or cloud or stone— Oh, let me have a little corner for my own! I’ve moved into so many houses in these years, Have scrubbed so many boards [...]

On Moving

Moving is either a form of torture invented by the devil to reduce a preacher to tears and madness or a test permitted by God to teach him patience, endurance, and the control of tongue and temper. Let the harp represent the musician; the pen, the writer; the gavel, the judge; the [...]