It had not rained for many months. The grass was burned and scorched. Leaves hung slack on the trees, drooping like listless flags in a still wind. Streams and creeks looked like muddy roadways littered with rocks and twigs. Our church had prayed Sunday after Sunday, meeting after meeting, asking God to open the skies […]
Month: March 2021
I am not the first man who held his wife’s hand as she died. I’m not the first widower. But when it happened that’s what I thought. I decided I was the only one who had ever been through something like that. No one understood. No one could fathom the emptiness and despair. We seldom […]