“Sometimes it’s necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.” Galway Kinnell In his book, “Tattoos on the Heart,” Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles writes, “The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.”…
Mercy House, as we see it, moves beyond equipping each of its women for life after pregnancy. Inherently built into the program is an invitation to the women to make a pilgrimage—into the heart and life of God.
This morning during my daily Scripture reading I came to the story of David and Goliath. As I re-read this familiar favorite I began to feel the encouragement of its message again. In my mind I imagined David coming into the army’s camp to the scorn of his brothers, especially Eliab, the firstborn who was…