“How do we pick among all the faces?” Pages of “Food for the Hungry” children line up in front of our church office. She must have seen my frustration. For, “Sometimes God can work through random selection.” is all our Mission’s pastor wisely tells us. We shuffle children. I close my eyes and pick one like lots in […]
“We are all only as great as the least of these among us.” I first see her face; Mocha skin, pony-tails reaching, big cheeks, walking un-supervised around the construction site where we touch shoulders with her people. Passing concrete along, for hours. A few other children gather, but she draws me like a tsunami where I […]
I trim off the dangling threads from my well-worn Bill Blass carry-on. The ones still reaching to grip China, from the last time I left it… But couldn’t hold on. I bow my head, taking scissors, cutting the airline tag saying, Hong Kong. And the bars keeping aching eyes back, whip through my head…still piercing my […]
I cried myself to sleep last night. She turned eighteen. All my attempt to bottle up that infant staring the world straight in the face….futile. I thought I could stop time. I thought I was God. Confining that two foot, little girl in a flowing dress,and sparkly shoes in the crevasses of my mind. But that […]
“There is a King in every crowd”, Russell Wilson’s Dad used to tell him. For the Seattle Seahawks, we here in the Northwest like to think that KingRussell’s Dad is referring to, is us. We pride ourselves on blue and green. We throw parties and chant in a deep voice, fist pounding in the air, “Go […]
Relevant Magazine yesterday posted, male authors are read more often than women..even by women themselves. Another article talks about a group of abortion advocates pushing to “have the right” to a late term injection into the hearts of their pre-born, nine-month-old infants. Yet, our God given purpose was to reproduce. Still, sex-slave trade permeates the internet. How […]