Two years ago, our family of five packed a suitcase per person with all our favorite things, left ALL our belongings in California, boarded a plane and arrived in Panama City Beach. Today, it's a sunny, wanna-be-spring Saturday afternoon and I am sitting in my backyard surrounded by the arrival of pink chrysanthemums and a…
I have a village. It is comprised of people who were once strangers - each of them, near or far, contributing to the functioning of our family. As for the closest, Ms. Barbara is my eighty-one-year neighbor who loves Jesus, wine and my kids. Although we only met two years ago, my children…
After my father died our home on Aldine Street was packed with people for about two weeks. They had come from varying places to offer their condolences, attend the wake and accompany us as we bid daddy farewell. We were grateful for the influx of people but it was the people who lingered after the…
Church began hours before Jonas and Silas Hudson rang the bell for Service at 10:30 a.m. last Sunday. Two hours before words and prayers of comfort entered wearied hearts, people gathered. Donors dropped off bottles of water, perishable foods, toiletries, flashlights, tarps, batteries, any and everything to assist those who were displaced, uprooted and left…
Thor and Dianna are survivors.
They both have a survivor story, one that at the heart of every survivor story reveals two things: the soul perseveres through dire circumstances and rises above that which could have once destroyed. It is here, I must pause to tell you that human beings are not the only survivors because…
A riptide is a tide that opposes another or other tides, causing a violent disturbance in the sea. The war between tides occurs underwater, catching lazed beachgoers off guard and violently pulling them out into the deep for miles. Even the greatest swimmers panic and try to fight these violent waves to return to shore. They…