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It was 1997 or 1998 when I snapped this shot of a little girl in Tijuana. We all cast a shadow in our lives and we all provide snapshots of ourselves in the lives of the people we meet that last long past the moment in which they were engraved upon our hearts and minds.…

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." – I Timothy 6:10 It is not money as some have carelessly quoted, that is the root of all evil. Money is fine. It is neutral.…

Just as I am, I come. And how is that? Wounded, weary, worn, wondering, wandering, weak? Groping, gasping, groaning, grinding, gripped with fear, guilt-ridden? Suffering and succumbing to and from the consequences of bad choices? I come. “Nothing in my hands, I bring. Simply to Thy cross I cling.” (Augustus Toplady, Rock of Ages) You…

Quotes from Myself and Others Wrong tentative answers? No problem as long as we keep asking the right questions of the right source, God grant me the humility today to be walked on as long as those who are walking are climbing closer to you and your purposes. I want to be a stepladder today…

Jesus, having moved from synagogue to house in his teaching ministry, now moves toward the sea in the open air. The crowd is so large, that he must move onto the boat to be seen and heard by the people on the shore. They are described as a mob in one meaning of the word,…

There is a difference in how people are treated no matter how much respect they offer. There is also a difference in how people with some power perceive the reactions they receive. It is filtered through experience, preconceptions, and invisible biases that have been taught and ingrained in our minds. Whether we are on the…