At Home With Wisdom
A beloved daughter, wife, mother, teacher, and writer, Ellen Richardine Evans (nee Acton) of Jasper, Texas, U.S.A studied English Literature in graduate school. At The University of Texas, Austin, her Master’s Thesis addressed Galsworthy’s FORSYTHE SAGA long before the twentieth or twenty-first Century BBC television series. A devout Christian, scribe, teacher, author, and intercessor, Richardine [aka Momma] spent many hours writing and praying while seated at her rolltop desk. Decades ago, Richardine coined the RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ phrase and earned a USPTO registration approval. Author of this website, now, is her daughter Ellen Richardine Evans. When we learned the trademark had expired. Richardine’s four children all agreed with Ellen’s plan to pursue a new registration of the RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ trademark.
In the New Testament of the BIBLE, Jesus Told us that His Sheep hear His Voice. If you don’t understand that now, I hope your perusal, study, enjoyment, and pondering of this website will lead you to hear. Recently, GOD Bade me create a website to share BIBLE songs for ease of memorization of BIBLE verses. A website of obedience and named after my mother, RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ website is here for your encouragement. May these various pages of the website inspire you to seek first The Kingdom of GOD in His Preparation of you for your role in His Kingdom Come on earth as it Is In Heaven.
Filled with human-created, GOD-sensitive writing, RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ website entries are absent artificial generation of content. Our experience is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can find information quickly as a tool, but its generation of written language and its original assimilation of new ideas and inferences from existing knowledge is lacking. Artificial intelligence (AI) is developed by human beings. Its output is generated by AI from training data and input prompting that human beings code and provide. In contrast, human beings are created by GOD and in His Image to give human beings a way with words and thoughts, especially as we hear GOD. AI cannot replicate GOD’s Role in our lives. Generative AI is emerging as a resource for encyclopedic research, the accuracy of which is increasing. For instance, we favor use of Chat Jesus (AI for Christians) website to find specific BIBLE references, translations, or historic insight. Chat Jesus (CJ) website or app readily locates and cites such information as the BIBLE reference for a phrase or the dates of a civilization or Greek translations of key words. Chat Jesus offers Devotionals and Discussions that serve as encouraging insight. That information augments our study, but it is not a source of our website output. Wherever we quote words we find enriching, whether from an on-line BIBLE, a book, an internet website, or an AI query, we will note that directly with reference, including CJ links as indicated.
With the passage of time, expanding and even intrusive familiarity with generative AI might cause us human beings to long to read, speak, and share direct human thoughts and wording. Time will tell whether richardinesrolltop.com will become a GoTo for His Inspiration Released through human beings who are created In His Image.
SING
At Psalms and Proverbs Academy, reading The BIBLE each day was a goal of our homeschool curriculum. The books of PSALMS and PROVERBS were central to the early schooling of my five children. The study of those two books of The BIBLE over a monthly cycle ensured the entirety of each book was covered at least once over the course of a year. As we studied chapters of these books, certain verses became familiar to us as favorite instructions or curious observations. For instance, Go to the ant, you sluggard from PROVERBS chapter 6 verse 6 leads the reader to the wisdom of ants storing the harvest for food in the sparse & cold winter. That became profound when we were nestled at home during subfreezing weather outside as tree branches broke and power outages ensued. We imagined ants buried in deep underground pockets of warmth where they shared their stored food, and, perhaps, because they were not sluggardly in harvest time, they sang ant songs of rejoicing over the fruits of their labors.
Music and singing were a part of our days. Naturally, we started to put those favorite and those peculiar verses to music. Over time, verses from every chapter of PROVERBS and a number of verses and even entire chapters of PSALMS were sung among us for the lyrics and tune to populate our minds. As my children matured, the tunes kept and do keep coming to me in my own BIBLE study time. These various “BIBLE in SONG” selections are recorded acapella with each lyric of verse(s) sung three times for repetition to encourage effortless memorization. Here as direct recordings of human voice, the intent is not to record spectacular singing performances. Rather, the purpose is to help you memorize BIBLE Scripture effortlessly and to sing for yourselves the lovely Living Words GOD Has Given and Has Preserved for us.
As you become accustomed to singing BIBLE verses. may your mornings and evenings be filled with the Inspiration of His Word In Song! Enjoy singing His BIBLE verses throughout your days. GOD Authored the lyrics. Holy Spirit Inspired the music. He Can Give each of you your own BIBLE tunes. Perhaps, one day our fellowshipping will gather us individual singers of BIBLE verses and chapters into groups of people who gather to sing entire Books of The BIBLE from memory!
Adding a G for GOD to the word “sin” turns “sin against GOD” into “sinG unto GOD!”
Hallelujah!
PONDER
Find here an assortment of short readings and thoughts. The entries are authored at the hand of human creative writing and written from human thought. The current explosion of generative artificial intelligence with and without creative human refinement of content is avoided purposely on this website. Contributing human authors will be named as they grace the “pages” of this section with items such as BIBLE Teachings to Sermon Notes. Sources of specific quotes will be cited, especially if any AI sourcing is tapped, but human authorship is foundational to RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ website.
VIEW
Photography and artwork will be made available for your viewing. Candid amateur photos are shared on occasion. Over time, the works of professional photographers will grace RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ website. Likewise, the works of gifted artists are expected to be viewed here. The process to order photography and artwork on line is being developed.
READ
Momma (Richardine) was an only surviving child of older Christian parents. Having suffered the still birth of Momma’s older sister, her parents expected to remain childless. When her 42-year-old mother gave birth to Richardine, her parents cherished her nearly as much as Jesus Adores each one of us. Being a child of older parents, Momma spent much of her time surrounded by adults in a day when television, cable, internet, and smart phones had not been invented. Computers were subjects of study and research in special silos of learning. (https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm Retrieved 2026May11) Radio programs were emerging, but the 24/7 deluge of stations had not yet surfaced. As a child, Richardine observed the adults she loved were reading, discussing what they read, and reading the more. She naturally expected that she must teach herself to read, and she did just that. I was told Momma was reading by the time she was 4 years old.
RICHARDINE’s ROLLTOP™ Website adopts what Momma lived and taught her children and grandchildren: reading opens the world to the mind and accelerates both expansive learning and nearly limitless imagination. An early avid reader, Richardine was a bright scholar. She was not coached in housekeeping and cooking so much as in study, music, and other academic subjects. Both Momma and Daddy loved people of all ages, which made our home a Welcome Place for anyone and everyone. This website welcomes you!
Short stories and chapters found on the RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ website offer a refreshing alternative to some of the internet and smart phone demands of your input, response, comment, or reaction. You are encouraged to interact with your family and friends to share comments and discuss ideas. For now, at least, RICHARDINE’S ROLLTOP™ website is a “Read-Only” website in which the writing is varied enough to let you pick and chose what reading or viewing fits your time and interest. The current website structure cannot accept incoming comments.
PRAY
Jesus intercedes for each one of us at the Right Hand of GOD Almighty. Jesus taught us to pray. He Said that we will do as much as and more than What He Was Able to do on earth during his human life, death, resurrection, and ascension. He Told us that He Must Leave us to Send Holy Spirit Who, like Jesus, Will Do Only What Father Shows Him and Will Say Only What Father Tells Him. As we seek His Face, our prayers begin to be Given from Heaven to be lifted up to Our Father and His Interceding Son. His Glory Falls. It Is Written in His Holy Scripture to Pray without ceasing, for this Is the Will of GOD! Hallelujah! SEEDS of Faith are planted from the Holy Scripture. PRAYERS Flow from His Heart and Purpose. May some of these seeds and prayers amaze your walk with Christ.