Pam Cavanaugh

Several years ago, when we lived in Louisville, I gave a dear friend a coal bucket for her to paint a Kentucky home scene on. The bucket belongs to my husband and when he was growing up, he used [...]

  We have this funny notion in our society that greatness is all big, over the top stuff! We are surrounded by the wrong idea of greatness from the media, which largely shapes the thinking [...]

“Winter: a lingering season, a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.” – John Boswell   This winter has lingered a [...]

People talk about a lot of things these days: politics, movies, Duck Dynasty, world affairs, and lately the weather. I would like to talk about the privilege I had to speak to a group of women [...]

Watching the Tournament of Roses parade is my New Years tradition.  Normally we mute commercials, but one commercial by Honda caught my attention.  Their slogan was “Start Something [...]

The decorations are finally in place.  I’m ready for Christmas to begin.  I always put out framed pictures of the kids from Christmas long ago.  Oh, how I miss when my boys were young. [...]

I keep a devotional book by Elizabeth Elliot close by.  The title is Keep a Quiet Heart.  I picked it up and was reminded how hard that is to do in our day.  Everywhere you go there are so many [...]

Our church is near a local university, and we minister to a lot of college-age people.  There was an organized effort to have students visit family homes, and I signed up for this Sunday.  The [...]

Do you remember when you were young and you got those big books with numbers and dots on the pages?  You could not tell what the picture was until you connected all the dots.  Our lives are like [...]

What a wonderful weekend the Lord gave me!  I am reminded of the verse: “…there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24).  I had the privilege of spending [...]