When we landed in Paris that Saturday afternoon, we had rather unrealistic ambitions: We planned to see all of Paris' historic buildings in the eight hours that was left of our day.Eight hours?!Impossible!In order to do so, we would need to walk more than 16...
You are a hiding place for me; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with shouts of deliverance. Psalm 32:7Anne Frank's Diary.In our high school German class at Concordia, Milwaukee, we had to translate The Diary of Anne Frank. Back then, as I concentrated on...
He’s already up and running, he will hit the streets again today;No telling how many people he will talk to, nor how many times he’ll pray.He has been doing this for about three years, since he first got the calling;Before that people knew him, as being drunk, no...
"Every noble work is at first impossible" (Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881)My ancestors, two generations back on my maternal side, hail from Scotland. Our family name was then Glendenning and there is still a small piece of southern Scotland that bears that clan name. Our...
Luke 2:16 - So [the shepherds] went with haste, and [by searching] found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. (AMP)It always amazes me that God made Jesus' birth announcement to lowly, unimportant shepherds. Why? Does it mean that Jesus' mission was to be...
How come we are so quick to forward emails defaming presidential candidates, but we are so indifferent towards the plight of the oppressed?How come we cry "wolf" when confronted with homosexuality, but bury our heads when other parts of the world are facing ethnic...
We met a very nice lady on our first day in the Bahamas. When our hotel room wasn't quite ready, we wandered down to the beach to pass the time. A lovely lady came running over with a handful of homemade necklaces, and after a few minutes of friendly chitchat, it...
