Yesterday, I spend almost two and a half hours watching Laine’s funeral. The sound was not good, so I probably only understood about half of what was spoken. I wish someone had tape recorded it so I could listen to it again and hear every word. Her children rose up and called her blessed. It was absolutely inspirational and beautiful to watch. I am going to try to remember some of what they said. It was so powerful and an…
Written By Annabel from Feather Your Nest Dear Laine has gone to her heavenly home. She has been in home hospice for weeks and she wrote to me last about three weeks ago. The last email I said, “I love you Laine.” I have loved Laine for more than 30 years. I began getting her letters when the girls were at school. I didn’t know her from a bar of soap, but I felt each letter was an actual letter…
“She extends her hand to the poor, Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.” (verse 20) She has worked hard to fill her hands as we have seen in the previous verses, but she does not now close them tightly to those around her in need. In fact, both of them are open! She is generous as she knows her Heavenly Father is generous and loves the poor. He is her all. He will uphold her and lead…
Here we are back in the beautiful book of Proverbs. A beautiful part of Scripture that was originally an acrostic poem that King Lemuel learned from his mother orally. Each verse started with a letter of the alphabet that he was so familiar with. She would have written it like this and had him repeat it back to her (verse 1: the “utterance” his mother taught him), so that he would never forget it. A wise way to help out…
One of my favorite women in the Bible is not really named at all. I affectionately call her “The Proverbs 31 Woman.” She is, to me, a personification of wisdom in the home. Her husband is the provider, and she is the subdivider. She couldn’t do what she does without him; and likewise, he could not have the home he has without her. They glorify one another by their deeds done in love. It is primarily a picture of the…
This letter from Laine stood out to me in reading over her writings since finding out she is in hospice. It’s about her childhood and is a beautiful picture of a wife winning her husband back after being transformed by Jesus Christ. Read it and be blessed! Dear Sisters, “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.’” Hebrews…
It was just made known that Laine is in hospice. She’s about my age. She is one of the most powerful mentors in my life after Debi Pearl. I devoured her emails. I printed them all off and saved them in a notebook. She loves the Lord deeply, and this love permeated everything she wrote. Here is her powerful testimony. I pray it will bless you as much as she has blessed me. Her reward will be great! I have…
What does submission look like? Very few of us have had godly role models to show us. Laine wrote a letter giving her readers concrete examples of what submission looks like. May you be blessed by her wisdom! Before I begin sharing concrete examples, however, I must explain that my heart changed toward my husband when I began to fall in love with Jesus all over again. When I began to thirst for His Word and time alone with Him…
Laine was one of my first mentors. I savored her letters and loved reading her wisdom. Her husband never made over $29,000 with six people in her home, yet she was able to pay off her Southern California home debt with many frugal practices and her motto, “Pray and pay, pray and pay.” She stayed home full-time and depended upon her husband’s income and God’s provision. She knows that God doesn’t speak highly of debt and did everything she could…