“Is this hard work?” I ask. He shrugs and grunts the way ten year-old boys do. And I don’t need a translator.
He presses the chunk of carrot against the grater and it becomes a blur. Lifts the grater and reveals a pile of orange, smiling at this magic trick.
“Your wife will be very happy some… 
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Peru All The Way Around
We’ve had a long and very up and down day emotionally. Great but exhausting. So, while I collect my thoughts and try to put words together, here’s a tour of Lima, Peru in 360 degrees.
A panoramic photo from the rooftop of Compassion child development center PE-223.
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Another panoramic photo from a…
Formed For Flight
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. -Genesis 2:7
“Richard.”
He’s stirred from his nine year-old boy daydream, eyes wide and fixed on mine.
“Richard, when you are a man…”
He nods along but drifts off again as if…
Jey’s Story With A Side Of Barbecue
A man in the front row lowered his hotdog to his lap. A woman placed her index finger over her pursed lips to shhh her chatty teenagers. For ten minutes Jey had the attention of 4,000 people.
And all it took was one story.
“Texas,” I said, “welcome to the stage, all the way from Nairobi, my…
On The Eve Of The End…Again
“I love you so so so so much, Daddy,” he said with a mouthful of cinnamon roll. “I’m miss you.”
Which means, I think, that he will miss me. So I hug him a little longer and reassure him eyeball to eyeball that I love him and I’m coming back. And there were a few tears…
The Seventy-Two
There were the three – Peter, James and John. The inner circle, friends Jesus relied on more than any others.
And there were the twelve. The disciples passing out bread to the multitude, circled up around the Rabi, praying in the garden, sharing a meal together that last night.
And the seventy-two. You’ve never heard of…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a husband, father, singer and communicator connecting the first world with the third world for the benefit of both.
