Husband and I were excited to give a greeting and an update from a mutual friend to an acquaintance of ours. We enthusiastically launched into the news from our mutual friend, but our acquaintance didn’t fully engage. We were disappointed when she looked past our faces and over our shoulders to what was going on…
Category: Relationships
“You’re going to H”
The self-possessed, nicely dressed, serious older gentleman beside me rose and was handed the microphone. What came out of his mouth arrested the attention of all present. “I’m Art S. On a Monday morning in the third grade my friend, Jeanie, said to me, ‘Art, you’re going to hell.’ Wow. That was a hard…
Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam, 1971: A 20-year-old GI is baptized in the warm South China Sea by his chaplain on Easter. This is a turning point in his life. He later asks his chaplain where he should go for training to serve God with his aviation skills when he returns to the US. The chaplain…
Hari Paskah
It was Passover/Easter in the Spring of 1982 in Bandung, Java, Indonesia. We had been living in this bustling Asian city of 6 million since the first of the year in order to attend language and culture training. Now it was a holiday and we decided to celebrate with some of our new friends. We…