Welcome the Outsider
Have Enough Favorites? It’s been a few years now, but I remember the night Brian brought me Vietnamese spring rolls. He had made spring rolls a couple weeks earlier and…
Read moreThoughts from an Island Jail – Rattle the Bars
Several hundred of us are seated in rows in a comfortably warm auditorium this Sunday morning on St. Simon’s Island. We’ve been here since Friday afternoon for the Southern Lights…
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Is More for Me, Less for We? A Look at Poverty, by America
—Grace & Truth Linkup
Day to Day I was in Dollar General with my friend. She needed to pick up a few essentials. As I walked alongside her, I noticed she wasn’t shopping smart.…
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Do the Work {A Book a Day 3}
—Grace & Truth Linkup
We’ve all been horrified by the killing of another Black man in Memphis last week. Tyre Nichols was pulled over during a traffic stop on January 7. He was brutally…
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5 Words to Keep Her Free
—Grace & Truth Linkup
Did I Really Do That? I’m not sure what came over me. I hadn’t planned to say anything. But I did. I was waiting in line to take communion at…
Read moreWhen You Don’t Want to Wake Up
Is It Worth Getting Out of Bed? I hear our little guy stirring in his crib. We are babysitting our 1½-year-old grandson for the weekend. He is awake now. I…
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