These Precious Days: Essays

“Emphasizing the scriptural ideals of love and community through service to the homeless, our Campus provides faithful people of Nashville an opportunity to respond directly to the broken and the disenfranchised among us. The fellowship with the poor is at the heart of our purpose.” What that means is that I am the person the Campus is serving. Par

is our responsibility to care for one another, to create fairness in the face of unfairness and find equality where none may have existed in the past.

The trick is in the decision to wake up every morning and meet the world again with love. I have

MOST OF THE writers and artists I know were made for sheltering in place. The world asks us to engage, and for the most part we can, but given the choice, we’d rather stay home.

“This one is good for your liver.” “This will help all your internal organs.” “You are beautiful. You are powerful. You decide.” We laughed at the simple optimism but we also caught ourselves listening.

When I was young, I read the books that were available, not the books that were appropriate.

I was starting to understand what she needed might have been color rather than conversation, breath rather than words.

I think that this is the major conundrum for me, whether to devote myself to the public good or personal growth. I’m not sure why they seem so separate but they

Everything hurt and nothing killed me.