Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.