Wednesday Changed my Life
I was eleven and told everyone I’d be starting an orphanage in India. Who’d believe an eleven-year-old? Skeptics added coals to my fire.
Hope & Healing, Reflections, Songs, Stories
Reflections
Reflections, Stories
Answers to some Questions & Questions for some Answers
Excuse me, did you have a question for this answer?
Hope & Healing, Reflections, Stories
The Depth of Humble
I sent the story draft again and again to Anna’s sisters who were top-notch school teachers. Her sisters meticulously read my story and edited it methodically —like proper teachers grading an exam. They admitted reading it was not easy; tapping into buried feelings took them to an emotional place that was difficult to visit too often or stay in too long. Buried heartache emerged after years. I understood. Reading about one you loved so deeply, but lost… hurts.
Family & Kids, Reflections, Songs, Stories
Dad’s Finale: The Last Ya-ba-da-ba-doo Man!
Parents are always on stage; they are the star in their children’s lives. They are the heroes.
Reflections, Stories
Targeting Life
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
(Norman Cousins)
Family & Kids, Reflections, Stories
Appostrogetic (Part Three)
Death is naked before God; destruction lies uncovered…” Job was right. I never imagined I’d live through such a day as that.
Family & Kids, Reflections, Stories
Appostrogetic (Part Two)
As the ceiling shuddered above us, there was an earth-shaking, appostrogetic tumult above our heads that entered our whole being and made our innards shake and tremble.
Family & Kids, Reflections, Stories
Appostrogetic (Part 1)
Absolutely everything had been lost. The only thing we had left was each other and a memory etched into our lives forever. What an unpresented Palm Sunday evening that was!