by Ray Rhodes | Aug 15, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
Glancing at a few old photographs from our thirty-three years together, I am struck by how beautiful you were then and how much more beautiful you are now. You are still and forever, “O Most Beautiful Among Women.” Beauty—a word often contemplated but...
by Ray Rhodes | Feb 14, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
Fact and fiction are intertwined in the modern recounting of the story of St. Valentine and his surmised connection with romance. However, he is remembered each year on February 14th, a day considered to be a day of love. Valentine’s Day is celebrated with cards,...
by Ray Rhodes | Aug 15, 2019 | Dancing Puritan
In just a few hours we will walk hand in hand, relax in a rustic room, and enjoy a fine meal at a cozy restaurant, and all of this not far from home. When our eyes met as you walked the aisle on our wedding day, neither of us could have seen the joys nor sorrows...
by Ray Rhodes | Nov 7, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
Because the LORD loved you (Deuteronomy 7:8). Doubts and questions often cloud our joy by covering up the rays of clarity. Doubts may come from outside (the world and Satan) but more often they well up inside of us, especially those of us who are prone to timidity...