Sometimes it just hits you, you know? Sometimes fate, or luck, or God or whatever it is that moves you when you are doing something else comes along and grabs you from the safety of your world and uncovers a path going off in a strange direction, a darker, thornier path as often as not, […]
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Tags : abundance, congress, Drought, famine, fate, homelessness, hubris, Khrushchev, marriage, Saul of Tarsus, Surprise, unknown, wedding
I was thinking about the refugee crisis the other day. Okay, I have actually been thinking about it for a long time now and it has begun to get on my nerves. Not the refugees you should know, I have nothing but sympathy for the plight of those who are fleeing war, depredation, poverty for […]
Tags : chosen one, David Miliband, Guernica, Harry Potter, hero, homelessness, humility, International Rescue Committee, Jason Bourne, math, mathematics, misleading, Percy Jackson, Picasso, poverty, refugees, Salt
I’ve always thought that the best, un-fulfilled promise we might make toward the homeless was to build showers and offer laundry service to them. I know, it sounds pretentious and elitist and other words that are not flattering, but in point of fact, it isn’t just for my comfort that this suggestion rises in my […]
Tags : Baptism, camping, dirty, funky, grace, hoarding, homeless, homelessness, Hungry, Jordan River, pantry, poo-pourri, Press Democrat, promise, shopping cart, shower, stink, sweat
Lots of talk this morning about time. In the days to come, says Isaiah. You know what time it is, Paul says in his letter to the Romans. About the day and the hour, no one knows, sayeth the Lord. What they do not say, at least out loud, is that the day about which […]
Tags : birth, Christ, death, die, end of days, end times, equality, homelessness, house of God, low anthropology, trivia
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