Cords of Kindness

Cords of Kindness

Jun 7, 2010 | Personal Blog

Flickr photo by DeaPeaJay , creative commons “I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.” Hosea 11:4, NRSV Melissa was a homeless woman, living in a Sunday...
Muddy Knees

Muddy Knees

May 31, 2010 | Personal Blog

Flickr photo by mcmrbt, creative commons As I remember it, she was around 19 or 20, about my age at the time, and as she led us through the military cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, past the thousands of crosses to my grandfather’s grave, I sort of wished...