Uniter of a country divided by race. A preacher. Refusing to separate color, culture or ethnicity. Isolation didn’t stop him. Traveling Australia to South Korea, London to behind the Iron Curtain. 400 crusades, 185 countries, and six continents. He gave spiritual counsel to presidents and kings, be-friending Dwight Eisenhower, Lydon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Senior Bush, Jimmy […]
My feet had no choice but to step on the campus the morning after a provoked teacher threatened to kill all the children, forcing the staff to watch. Old red, white, and blue, dangled in the bright, cloudless sky. I was told the testing for one of my kids would take around two hours. I checked […]
Horizontal fingers have been flying all around, lately. Like a game of “Who dun it?” where we each become detectives. Each particpatants in some crazy mystery, trying to solve, discover, have opinions about why the world is collapsing. Floridian children lie in body bags, and our finite minds want answers, understandably. Cancer spreads without asking questions, […]
Smart. Alive. Extremely affectionate. I can’t remember where we got Shelby, but her coloring resembled a malamute, possibly mixed with a little Norwegian Elkhound or Husky. Her tail curled up, encircling her backside with lush white fur. And I remember as a child, just sitting along the windowseal, staring out at her dancing around the back […]
4:30 a.m. I randomly run across a pastor describing his old porn addiction. “I asked God to let me reach the nations”, He describes. “But my addiction remained.” He went on…“It wasn’t until my prayer changed, freedom came. It changed to, ‘God let me know you more.’” He explains, we must get to that place of […]
It literally felt like days, sitting in that white sterile room, in the center of our city’s best hospital. A long, heavy curtain separated me from where they took my baby, like the cloak of fear that drapped my heart. “Would she return?” “Could she have an allergic reaction to the anticetic?” “Is there a chance […]