"I am going home to Denmark, Son, and I just wanted to
tell you I love you."
In my dad's last telephone call to me, he repeated that
line seven times in a half hour. I wasn't listening at the right level.
I heard the words, but not the message, and certainly not their profound
intent. I believed my dad would live to be over 100 years old, as my
great uncle lived to be 107 years old. I had not felt his remorse over
Mom's death, understood his intense loneliness as an "empty nester,"
or realized most of his pals had long since light-beamed off the planet.
He relentlessly requested my brothers and I create grandchildren so
that he could be a devoted grandfather. I was too busy "entrepreneuring"
to really listen.
"Dad's dead," sighed my brother Brian on July 4, l982.
My little brother is a witty lawyer and has a humorous,
quick mind. I thought he was setting me up for a joke, and I a
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Broken To Fall
Beaten To Live
Destroyed For Pleasure
Dying To Give
Kept By A Promise
Lead By A Light
To Strong To Surrender
To Weak To Fight
Inside There's Promise
Outside There's Pain
Alone There's Voices
Seeking To Gain
There's Still Something Missing
I Never Could Find
A Fathers Love
Whose Was There The Hole Time.
Near the city of Sao Jose
dos Campos, Brazil, is a remarkable facility. Twenty years ago the Brazilian
government turned a prison
over to two Christians. The institution was renamed Humaita, and the plan
was to run it on Christian principles. With the exception of two full-time
staff, all the work is done by inmates. Families outside the prison adopt
an inmate to work with during and after his term. Chuck Colson visited
the prison and made this report:
'When I visited Humaita I found the inmates smiling-
particularly the murderer who held the keys, opened the gates and let
me in. Wherever I walked I saw men at peace. I saw clean living areas,
people working industriously. The walls were decorated with Biblical sayings
from Psalms and Proverbs...My guide escorted me to the notorious prison
cell once used for t
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A candymaker wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made
the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth,
ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy. White to symbolize the
Virgin birth and the sinless nature of Jesus,
and hard to symbolize the Solid Rock, the foundation of the Church, and
the firmness of the promises of God.
The candymaker made the candy in the form of a "J" to represent the precious
name of Jesus,
who came to earth as our Savior. It could also represent the staff of
the "Good Shepherd" with which He reaches down into the ditches of the
world to lift out the fallen lambs who, like all sheep, have gone astray.
