Daniel

Something was wrong. My otherwise un-intruded childhood witnessed my dark-colored friend, Daniel, mistreated. The uneasiness covered me...

Advent, beginnings, are like that old Confucius saying – the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In my life, it began...

I live in the shadows, the shaded remembrances of my past, persistent guideposts and framers of the person I was, who I became and still...

“I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong – that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged...

“Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). Mother reared me with...

Somewhere in the lexicon of Christian thought, the idea of tolerance crept in to suggest this was the whole and final conclusion one...

In my mind, I’m traveling across the South Carolina sand hills, driving the backroads passing landmarks so familiar each barely receives...

“ Judge not,  that you be not judged. For with that j udgment you judge , you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be...

Daniel's brother, Ed, because I do not have a picture of Daniel Never should one ask, if not prepared for truth, to go back. Bliss...

Jack dies.  He finds himself walking down a dirt lane. In the distance, he sees a gate. As he nears, he sees a man tending a garden. He’s...

During those times when life wrenches from me a comfort of which I’ve become fond, and harshness disrupts and confounds me, my mind fades...

But it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared For those...

Is there a Daniel in your life? There is, was, in mine. I have long lost contact with Daniel. Life, geography, time, and ambition...

His name was Daniel, the caddy master at Orangeburg Country Club. The title puzzled me as Orangeburg did not have caddies. But then, golf...