Note: This is not a news report filled with facts about last night's vigil. This is simply my story of what I experienced and what I understood to have happened. The news articles are about the facts. This is about my heart. Yesterday started like any other. Breakfast, math, spelling.....and then the text came… Continue reading Hands and Hearts Joined Together
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Columba pacis
This evening as my Aub and I gathered together in a circle of 100 or more people gathered at the Vigil, I looked down in the midst of the singing, and I saw this leaf there on the ground in front of me. It intrigued me and comforted me. As prayers were said for the… Continue reading Columba pacis
The Sanctity of Life and the Miracle of Grace
In September 2011 I heard a name I'd not heard before. I heard it on the radio, saw it on Facebook. Troy Davis. This young man only three weeks older than I am was convicted for the August 19, 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Georgia. His execution was scheduled for… Continue reading The Sanctity of Life and the Miracle of Grace