“Somebody needs to help him! He looks so sad!” My little ones are once again disturbed about a scruffy stranger at a stoplight. He’s holding a cardboard sign: “Anything helps. God bless America.” One of some 2000 local homeless people, he is also part of over half a million homeless nationwide. Those red, two-minute traffic…
My Latin American friend asked me to pray for her and her husband. They were feeling a tug to adopt a child, but they wanted to be sure it was the right decision. There would be many hurdles. The praying started in 2005. “Coincidentally,” it was the same year their adopted son was born in…
Besides showing off Pikes Peak, the city of Manitou Springs, Colorado, has some quirky attractions to draw in tourists. One is the Emma Crawford coffin race/festival, which includes a Halloween parade. For the race, about 50 teams–four pallbearers each–push coffins on wheels that carry ghostly Emmas. The real Emma Crawford, a spiritualist, died in 1891 in Manitou…