At 6:30 AM I joined my friend yet again for my fifth attempt at buying train tickets. When we arrived at the train station, we couldn't even find the end of the line to buy tickets! We walked for fifteen minutes, and still the line of people snaked around corners and down streets for block [...]
Knees buckling, and about to fall I stumble another step. Mentally and physically exausted, I carry on. Through the heat I walk as I try to carry the heavy load on my back. I see myself in the desert, walking under the sun. Drained by each step I take in hopes of getting closer to [...]
Arising from my bed, broken-down, burned out,consumed, drained, exasperated, pretty considerable spent of body soul and mind! Apprehensive of the fact that I still have an abundant amount things to decided before my time is up in my dream-land! Even though these thoughts are consuming my whole being, I also need to keep in conception [...]
Something caught at my heart. I don’t know what exactly. I glanced around me, and it was as if Hebrews 11 came alive before my eyes! An older man knelt in surrender. A young woman danced in abandonment. A child waved a flag and began to laugh. I knew these were men and women, families, [...]
Tonight is the first dunking of one of our friends. I have a lot of different feelings going into the night, as we get closer and closer to the event. We met this friend about four months ago, and at first, all we saw was someone that was loud and only seemed to want attention [...]
A mix of apprehension and curiosity tugged at me as Phillip looked at us with that ‘I have a proposition for the two of you' look on his face. With a little over a week before we left for our retreat and with most of our friends gone for vacation Curly and I were relaxing [...]
To my enemy, You continue to steal from my friends and family the joy that is available to them. You kill the hearts and the hope in many of those I love and cherish. You destroy the lives and testimonies of many devoted followers of God. You prey on the weak and the helpless. Your [...]
Military officers bark orders into the chaos as people and darkness swirl around me. My jeans are soaked up to my knees and my toes have lost feeling. We stand in line and my friend races around trying to find out what exactly the situation is. It is as we feared: no more train tickets. [...]
There I stood with Carl, a couple other of the CT guys, and two of their Asian friends. Having just made a purchase that we were all particularly thrilled about–a big 80 pound case of fireworks that we had just carried about four blocks–we waited our turn. The street corner was currently being being exploded [...]
Two nights ago I had dinner with two old local friends, Pang and Chen, in one of the most advanced cities of the world. Old friends means I lived with them in New York State in 2001-2002. Being here with them, reminiscing about old times, has made me think of how this all began. It [...]