DISAPPOINTING THE HOMELESS

I had to go that way anyhow. I might as well call my homeless friend and ask her if she needed some food. She did. She said she was starving. So I started to prepare a lunch for her. Then my phone rang. My son needed some information to apply for financial aid. He...

THE LITTLE GIRL INSIDE OF ME

I saw her on a walk to begin with. She had the excitement that I used to contain as a little girl. She thought she had known me from before. I did not recognize her because I had said “goodbye” to my little girl years ago. I could see she was still in...

PROSPERITY

There are those preachers who preach that prosperity is our right as Christians to lay claim to. The “name it and claim it” bunch. They preach that the promotions are ours to grab. The big houses have our name on the mortgage  and the key to that Corvette...

MY MOTHER’S STORY

My mother had told me the story throughout my life. I had heard it again and again. She went through a hard time when she was a young mother and had a nervous breakdown. According to my Aunt she had been so ravaged by the cruelty of others that she had spent a year in...

HOMELESS

I met her at a Starbucks. It wasn’t the one I usually go to for my morning cup of pep. She came up to me after I got my coffee and spoke blessings on me. She didn’t say that she was homeless but she said she was in a situation and that she lived in the...

BASKET OF HEARTACHE

It was there. In the corner of my bedroom. It had been there for 3-4 years. It did not belong. It was ugly, messy and unorganized. It was my basket of heartache. The basket contained an overflowing mess of binders. Several years ago I went through a heart...