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Flying

Hands on the wheel I pulled toward me and the plane climbed higher into the sky.  Pushing the wheel in sent it down like a roller coaster.  Giggles came from the backseat as my cousin and sister laughed and asked to do it again.  Up we would climb and then quickly fall sending our stomachs [...]

A Celebration of Hope

“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.  I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now I see.”

I wanted to come home… I knew if I didn’t I might regret it forever.  Friday I was back on a plane flying over the pond so I [...]

A Family of HOPE

In 1996 I was a freshman at Woodstock High School, barely five feet tall and Bambi leg stick skinny.  I know this doesn’t really match the description of a basketball player, but I liked the game.  I tried out for the team and played on the “B” squad most of the time but towards the [...]

Good-bye

“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.  May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.  And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”  ~Irish Blessing

When we say goodbye to [...]

Hard Times

“Give me an answer, give me the way out, give me the faith to believe in these hard times…” -Needtobreathe

The past couple of days I have witnessed a tremendous amount of pain.  It is not measured on a 1 to 10 pain scale or healed with medicine.  It’s the pain that reaches deep [...]