When the woman touched the hem of Jesus’ cloak and was healed, Jesus says, “Someone deliberately touched me.” The disciples, when Jesus asked who’d touched him, had said that the crowd was pressing against him and how could anyone tell who’d touched him? But Jesus was asking about a deliberate touch, one that had …
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Search for Truth
More than forty years ago when I needed University-approved housing at the last minute, I took a cancellation at a boarding house in Champaign. One of those accidental roommates in that small triple room was God’s intentional means to draw me into his heart. This excerpt from my memoir, Trading Fathers, describes our first encounter: “When …
I Am Still Waiting
At 18, I loved a poem by Lawerence Ferlinghetti: “I Am Waiting.” I was waiting for a way out And for someone to hold me for despair to take a hike for the tears to stop for the sun to rise for somebody to tell me who I am for an apology and an explanation for something …