One day on a mountain pass in Yemen I took a wild photo from behind two beater pickup trucks, two shaky vehicles with too few safety features moving way too many people and household items. It was at a curve on this two-way road when one of the overloaded pickups, incredibly, passed
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(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, December 21, 2013)
ENTEBBE, UGANDA ✦ It’s the end of another year of words.
Words that have routinely informed us and words that have even sometimes, like summer snow, given a fresh look at everyday things. Like what happened recently in Africa during my children’s nightly reading, a story both troubling and reassuring.
“You know,” I said, after, “things will happen in your life. Bad things. And nobody will be able to save you from them. I won’t be able to and neither will your mother. But let me tell you something. God loves to take these sorts of things and turn them into something good.”
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