Nancy C. Williams

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.’” (Psalm 122:6) Earlier this year, I walked through a hallowed spot deep below the surface of Jerusalem.  Our tour group trekked through the Western Wall Tunnel, a skinny passageway that skirts alongside the precisely-hewn…

“For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that isgiven to us, let us use them…. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all…

“And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. Then all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.” (Nehemiah 8:6) When our daughter, Elizabeth, was a toddler and starting to talk, I would set her in her high chair just before dinner and start putting food on…

“And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, ‘It is a ghost!’ And they cried out for fear.” (Matthew 14:26) I just spent four nights sleeping in a supposedly-haunted room.  Last week, my beloved husband and I enjoyed a short trip to Charleston, S.C., having booked a room in a…

“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy….” (Philippians 1:3-4) It’s called the Wailing Wall, but when we visited the Jerusalem site earlier this year, our experience was remarkably quiet…a serious place for prayer. The limestone wall on the western side of the…