Do some heart surgery
[After 2 weeks, I’m back home! Thanks for praying about my father-in-law’s successful heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic.] The medical center is massive. Clean. White. And crowded with people of…
Read moreA “chance” encounter?
Is this just me, or you, too? You round the bread aisle at Publix and see someone slightly familiar, but you’re not sure. You avoid eye contact again until you…
Read moreDiscrimination—An inside view
It’s a touchy subject. I’m uncomfortable bringing it up. I’d rather ignore racial lines altogether—I know we’re all the same!—but sometimes if we want to know what we’re blind to…
Read moreTo hear voices, listen
The professional caterer walks to our table next. He needs to fix a few pre-meal errors we’d made—face each knife in the right direction; put the napkins on the correct…
Read moreWhen the nations come to you
This month at Do Not Depart we’re talking about this: “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19-20) But not everybody can hop on a plane and go overseas.…
Read moreBut what will happen to me? On discrimination
I imagine that the first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But by the very…
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