Archive for 3300 Miles for Christ – #3
24 Dogs and a Dead Alligator
They call this low country but I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because it’s the southern side of South Carolina. Dogs run free here in packs of four and five. They’re strays and no one cares for them, at least that’s what Miss Linda from the local newspaper said. She stopped to do a brief [...]
Friendship Addiction
Drugs and alcohol. We hear about them so much, the damage they do to human lives doesn’t even seem to register on our “I care meter.” Today I met a gentleman who is addicted. He was trembling as I held his hand and prayed. When I asked him if he had ever tried to quit, [...]
Diamonds
Two days of rain thanks to Tropical Storm Nichole and then two days of brilliant sunshine and mild temperatures! We’re in beautiful North Carolina and each hour of walking seems to bring the nicest people my way. Miss Elizabeth is an artist/journalist who is working to help the flood victims of Pakistan. She told me [...]
The Story Stops the Glory
We were getting out of the RV when we saw her approaching from the back of the vehicle. For a moment, I thought about going around the front to avoid talking with her. “Why?” I thought. We’re out here to talk to people not walk away from them! So we turned toward her and said, [...]
People!
These last few weeks have been….interesting. People of every personality type and background stopped to walk and talk with us. Crystal took her car into the shop and decided not to wait for the bus. She started to walk home and saw me up ahead. As she got closer, she wasn’t sure she wanted to [...]
The Indigent
It was winter and he was living outside. He was chilled to the bone even when the wind didn’t blow. The two women he loved most in his life, both lost the war against cancer. An only child, and now he was alone. He drank to forget but that didn’t help so he smoked crack [...]
Saturday in America
Walking through Richmond, I noticed a woman sitting on a low wall watching me approach. “Got any money?”, she asked with a shameless smile. “What do you want with money?, I replied. “Need to get a cup of coffee and something to eat.” I fumbled in my bag….DVD’s, phone, rock, a small bag of almonds [...]
Surely
“My mother died in 2005 and since that time it seems my siblings can’t get along with each other. My father is still with us and I want us to become close again but I don’t know what else to do.” Joanna was beginning to get emotional. Here we were on the street: a little [...]
Sloooooow and Eeeeassy
Speed is matter of perception. A hundred miles an hours is a fast clip for a car but is very slow for a commercial aircraft. Ten miles an hour is a pace that just might win a marathon but will finish dead last in a sprint. My perception is continually shifting when I think of [...]
Grumpy Almost Misses It
“Where are you going?” I was deep in thought and didn’t like the idea of being disturbed, plus I hadn’t been in the best of moods the last couple of days. Even though I was walking America for Christ, I didn’t greet Officer Benson with any of the joy of Jesus in my heart. We [...]
