Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know, Lord, when we were just little kids out on the ranch, far from town or neighbors, Grandpa, then a widower, lived out of state, made trips out to see us. Grandpa usually brought along a small paper or wooden wall-hanging with one of his favorite Bible verses. Throughout the years, the verses from Grandpa hung in Dad and Mom’s bedroom, several in the room for us girls and one in the living room.

We were all pretty little back then but Grandpa would hold little sister or our new baby brother and tell us Bible Stores about which-ever wall-hanging he’d brought th...