Random

Mitch Albom (arguably the best columnist in the U.S and the first author who really grabbed my attention as a youngster growing up in Metro Detroit) wrote an interesting piece on poverty and the homeless in yesterday's Free Press.

The men keep their coats on. It is cold inside this church. They sit at tables, hungry for food, and listen as a woman tries to rouse them with inspiration.

"I AM ..." she yells.

"I AM ..." they yell back.

The lighting is dim. Some men hold their chins in their hands.

"SOMEBODY!" she yells.

"SOMEBODY!" they yell back.

It is a gym floor on a basement level, but two nights a week it is something else, a safe haven, a place to sleep during the frozen Detroit winter. Most folks come here for one reason.

"BECAUSE GOD ..."

"BECAUSE GOD ..."

They have no place else to go.

"LOVES ME!"

"LOVES ME!"

Click HERE to read the whole thing.

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Kara wrote a great blog about our vacation last week. She's great with photos.

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Randy Harris is doing an interesting Advent series right now. I'm listening to each one a few times. I've introduced him to some of my Methodist and Presbyterian friends at Columbia Seminary and they love him.

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Book reviews to come for the book-junkies out there.