Mission Accomplished
Wonder what you have in common with the homeless? Our bus pulls curbside and stops. I see the red painted door on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Nestled between posh brownstone buildings in one of the world’s wealthiest neighborhoods is the Bowery Mission for Women. It’s a rescue mission—rescuing the homeless and helpless—for Christ’s sake. Warm hands […]
Beyond the Fog
Dawn revealed fog blanketing our land—opaque and mysterious, romantically beautiful, like folds of white tulle blurring the landscape. And my eyes blurred with prayerful tears. She left this morning after pancakes and strawberries. Seventeen. Little girl wrapped in woman’s body, arrested last week for theft. She needed a place to stay so we […]