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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, September 28, 2009 12:58:03 PM
I have added some new posts to my faith based blog.
Here are part of the postings.
Rain falls on the church roof. It pours through a gaping hole and splashes onto the pews. Against the plop, plop, plop of gathering water, a pastor urges nearly 100 weary men to believe in the future. They wear old jackets or sweatshirts. They line up for chili and cornbread. They sleep on the floor, atop vinyl mattresses.
“Enjoy the meal,” the pastor tells them as they line up. “There’s a place for you here. See that man for a blanket…”
This is my hometown, Detroit, in a devastated economy, in a crumbling church, on a cold, hard floor at the bottom of the world.
And still, there is hope.
If there is any advantage to living at the epicenter of the economic crisis, where our main industry—the auto business—has imploded, where abandoned houses seem to dot every corner, where the unemployment rate is a staggering 25%, it is this: You get to see what man is made of.
What I have seen is that man is made of tough stuff. Man can rise to the occasion. One such man is the pastor of this church. Read more about this Make A. Difference Pastor,
Finding The Silver Lining.
When Kala Rempe and Sarah Reynolds learned their classmate, Ben Petrzilka, had been killed by a tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in Iowa last summer, they were overwhelmed with sadness.
But the support of their families and classmates at Mary Our Queen School in Omaha helped them cope, they said.
So did working on a tribute book to Ben.
The book “Our Soles, Our Souls” is an anthology written as a tribute to Ben. It takes readers on a journey with Ben’s classmates, teachers, family and friends as they share a “sole” story.
The idea was inspired by Ben’s practice of pointing out abandoned shoes on the side of the road as “lost soles” and wondering about the spiritual journey of the people who wore the shoes. Read the rest of this posting , Book helps students cope with boy’s death.