by Debby Efurd | Jun 27, 2015 | The Second Mile
Recently, I began training (more school!) with the Texas State Department of Corrections as well as Prison Fellowship Ministries to qualify me to become a mentor to inmates. If there’s ever a place that needs...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 18, 2015 | The Second Mile
I remember waiting with growing anticipation for the last day of school. The final bell would ring and everyone would race to get out of the building and into three months of freedom. A Kentucky Derby winner could not have outraced anyone of us! The only event that...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 7, 2015 | The Second Mile
Those of you who know me know I’ve had many changes in my life . . . lots of them. Retirement, work, health, ministry. It’s not enough for me, the true choleric that I am, to take on one mission – NOOOOO, I have to take them all on. Several years back I took a...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 5, 2015 | The Second Mile
I read a phrase today I had never seen . . . “self-sufficiency is spiritual suicide.” That intrigued me. What did it mean? More importantly, how did it apply to me? I grew up in a family of hard-working Americans. Every day my parents would get up in...