Dynamite blasts a 50,000 person church in Chi*a this past January. Sides crumble, earth rumbles, ceilings splinter apart like some cardboard commodity. A bright, red cross high and lifted up, bends low, slides horizontal, parralel with that dusty heap of rubble left to taint bystander’s nostrils. Yet, the Golden Lampstand Church of Shanxi Province, wasn’t the […]
Slow down, child. Why all the racing? Running frantically? Living like a web getting more entangled the faster you go? Don’t you know, beauty is in the slow? A mother flutters to her nest, she slowly built. Bees buzz, pollinating for the good of nature. Spring’s fragrance moves from the gentle, slow breeze, flowing across the […]
Honestly, I must be the world’s worst camper, even after traveling around the states in a blue van in the 70’s, with my brother and parents. As a child, I preferred gathering frogs, searching for arrowhead’s like some ancient Indian ruling the land, or hiking up mountains imagining our ship had been wrecked, left to survive […]
The child with a swollen head. Just one light. The fuzzy-backed baby screamer. Just one light. The little girl who bit me, scratched her thigh with fingernails, tried to jump out of my moving vehicle. Just one light. The beautiful boy whose gone. Just one light. This world of fostering is like running into a forrest, […]
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 […]