All this was taking place on a flight to visit my Mom and Dad, who were in their eighties and living in California. Sitting beside me was a nine-year-old girl, traveling alone. She kept looking at me, wondering what I was up to. Ignoring her was unkind, so I stopped praying and chatted with her. […]
A friend’s recent experience reminded me of Steerforth in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. He was a charming, good-looking, multi-talented senior boy when a desperate young David escaped his abusive stepfather and, with the aid of a spinster aunt, got into a good school. New boys are normally treated very badly but Steerforth, for whatever reason, cast […]
“Lord, you have taken me through a story that is completely unorthodox and embarrassingly anthropomorphic. What am I to make of that?” I am not interested in what you make of it (or) in conforming My account to your prior, fixed beliefs. Be more specific in your future questions. I am using literal language because […]
