I make really odd faces when I’m asking questions. In fact, my face is so scary that the NSA has banned my face from the internet after this post. “Next time, wear a mask” they said. As you might imagine, with a face that frightening, it was next to impossible to get my interviewee to […]
The other week I asked this snarky question to my Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook community: Over the past two weeks I’ve been attempting to encourage people to join me in sponsoring a child in Guatemala through World Vision. Within those two weeks over two million people have visited my Facebook page. Out of […]
After nine years of trying to bring a new life into our family, we wanted a child so much that we adopted. And Jeremiah is simply the greatest gift that we have EVER been given. I’ve always understood that children are precious, but waiting nine years for Jeremiah only amplified that sentiment. Today in the […]
Today I saw children destined for a greatness that will go unrealized. Undernourished until the age of three or four, their bodies will remain in an underdeveloped state where body, mind and spirit will be delayed from now until death. In this area of Guatemala, 9 out of 10 children suffer from this debilitating chronic […]
A reading from The Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verses 37 – 40: “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we […]