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I woke up feeling the cool breeze of the Guatemalan morning. It was refreshing as my heart had been wrecked beyond what I could imagine the days previous. Walking around the Guatemala City Dump community the previous day had left me feeling overwhelmed. My mind...
Sophonie, she scratches words on peach-colored concrete with a sliver of yellow chalk. She points to them and then to herself. "God. Me. Father. Mother." I brim and pull her close. "Yes. God. He's your father and your mother." And He's enough. Jeffrey's fifteen, he...
[serialposts]I've thought a lot about Christmas gift giving lately. It's something that weighs heavy on my mind now. Maybe it's because I know it'll be a pretty light year here in the King household. Between losing my job of 13 years just a few months ago, and...
"Compassion inflicts its knife-like pain only on those who, strong or not, brave or not, intelligent or not (such qualities are beside the point), have been granted the horrible gift of looking the world full in the face and seeing it as it is." - Marguerite...
I know a teenager who is destitute. The same girl steals. Of course she does....
[serialposts] "No education, no future. With education, dreams come true!" I...
[serialposts]I've really been having a tough time holding it together over the...
[serialposts]Sometimes you just never know what God is up to. On our final...
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