I choose to be a witness
“Please, tell me how to hold it all?” she asks me in an email. “Do you ever want to close your eyes, and plug your ears?”“Yes.” I tell her. “If I’m honest, a few times a day.”Her email was one…
Daily Dose (February 3 – 6)
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3 -- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.And when that happens, I forgot, or didn’t remember (or didn't see and embrace the light inside of me)…
Mercy matters
My heart hurts. And I know your heart hurts too.And when I see what is happening right now and choose to write about it, adding names and faces of the people of Minneapolis, some readers say to me, “Terry, you’re…
Daily Dose (January 27 – 30)
TUESDAY JANUARY 27 -- Rear Admiral Thornton Miller Chief was the Chaplain at Normandy in WWII. Someone asked him, "Up and down the beach, with the shells going everywhere, why did you do that?""Because I'm a minister.""But didn't you ask…
Blessed are the peacemakers
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands…
Daily Dose (January 20 – 23)
TUESDAY JANUARY 20 -- Have you read Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, by Douglas Wood?The children’s book tells an imaginary story of how the world came to be so fragmented when it is meant to be whole, and how…
Let us let go of the labels
In Luke's Gospel, there is a story about a "bent woman." We don't know her name. Just the label that has been given to her. A label she has carried for 18 years. Those around her put her in a…
Daily Dose (January 13 – 16)
TUESDAY JANUARY 13 -- Mother Pollard was one of the elders of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, during the bus boycott of 1955-56. When her pastor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., suggested she go back to the buses…
No longer afraid
Going through his five-year-old son's backpack, a father found a picture of a little boy standing under a rainbow crying. His first thought was, "Oh God, my son is having some serious problems."When he asked his son about the picture,…
Daily Dose (January 6 – 9)
TUESDAY JANUARY 6 -- A pious man heard God. “Tomorrow night I’m going to visit your home,” the voice told him.The man pushed aside his predictable hesitation, and rolled the dice in favor of belief. After all, it’s not often…