Only Jesus and poverty make me cry. But I came close that night, stuffing clothes into my suitcase. Again. The rule is – the RULE is – that after being gone five days I should have been home five days before leaving again. But we broke the rule. There was… Read More
We’ve all heard of the five stages of grief and many of us have even moved through them ourselves. Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance The typical responses to extreme poverty are very similar, in my experience. Many of us even seem to move through them sequentially. What’s your response right… Read More
Rock Star • noun – A performer behaving in an arrogant, rude, or obnoxious manner. The stage manager was panicked. The festival was more than an hour behind schedule. Because of a city curfew, power to the stage would be shut off at 10. Road managers were asked to have their artists… Read More
I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to write all day. The heat is broken in my bonus room office so I can’t write there. The ideas and fingers of a Texan freeze at any temperature below 50 degrees. The box of Christmas presents from grandparents arrived this morning and after it was… Read More
Sambhaji’s elementary school had a feast before Thanksgiving. Parents were invited to eat in the cafeteria with their child’s class. When Sambhaji got home that afternoon he told me I wasn’t the only dad who couldn’t make it – an attempt at comforting both of us I think. “Drew’s dad… Read More
I fell in love and then everything fell apart. Which is a tad bit dramatic and not exactly true but that’s certainly how it felt at the time. And so I prayed. And God answered. I traveled to El Salvador many years ago to prove once and for all that… Read More
Shaun Groves