My heart broke this summer. Like the fairy tale, I had a great fall, and there’s no putting me back together again. You see, I met some kids whose eyes reached in and grabbed hold of my heart. These were old souls staring out from young bodies. They were mere…
Let’s play word association. Ready? The word is Gospel. What comes to your mind? (Be brave—post your responses in the comments!) For many years, I have associated the term Gospel with evangelism. I get a mental picture of those nifty little booklets with pithy statements of the forgiveness found in…
When I think of wealth, visions of opulence come to mind. I hear Robin Leach narrating a mansion tour. I think mansions, fleets of cars, acres of land. What I don’t think of is me—my house, my car, my lifestyle. I see my life as rather average—a good one, certainly,…
Tears are readily flowing from my eyes as I turn them to focus on worldwide poverty for this month’s Social Justice Challenge topic. And that’s a good thing. Tears soften the deadened places of the heart. Tears make the heart malleable, ready to be shaped into a living, beating muscle…
It’s Month 7 of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC). The goal of the SJC is to foster learning about social justice issues through reading and then to put feet to that newfound knowledge through some sort of action. (Learning is the easy part; it’s the action that’s difficult!) For the…
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