Everybody, Always

our home now, we don’t call the police. We call the Feds, and agents come within minutes. I’ve only called once, but it’s pretty ...

said, “Bob, I just got back from the doctor, and she gave me some bad news. I have cancer.” Her words hung over the phone like t ...

their fears about what they do know by a mile. Three words stand out to me in the Bible. They aren’t big and deep and theologica ...

than a few setbacks too. During one of the turns she took early on, she ended up in the hospital for an emergency operation. Aft ...

CHAPTER 3 Love Everybody, Always “Love one another.” What is simple often isn’t easy; what is easy often doesn’t last. It was a ...

sacking groceries and attending city council meetings. They’re holding cardboard signs on street corners and raking leaves next ...

we’re already at our house and sometimes a little past it before anyone starts moving. Here’s why we do it: we can’t love people ...

Even as I did, I asked God if He would let Carol have at least one more parade with us. Seven months later, our family had just ...

Sweet Maria mocked up the king of all hot dogs for her to look at and piled it high with the works. It had a whole mound of onio ...

them. They turned on their lights and started getting out of the car—and she threw it anyway. We were still wearing our disguise ...

On New Year’s Day, Carol was clinging to life by a few threads and was far too weak to get out of bed. She’d made it to the day ...

CHAPTER 4 The Yellow Truck Don’t tell people what they want; tell them who they are. When I finished law school, I bought a yell ...

while projecting a load of indifference. The reason we do this is as simple as it is complicated. Even when someone’s suggestion ...

most say we are. God did this constantly in the Bible. He told Moses he was a leader and Moses became one. He told Noah he was a ...

So much so, the firm couldn’t fit our cars under the building where I worked. Each employee got two hundred dollars a month to p ...

need find each other. What this man really needed was a secure place to spend his days. Someplace warm and dry. What I really ne ...

and tell us to run away. I drove that yellow pickup truck for 120 , 000 miles—and do you know what? I never changed the oil. Not ...

The father in Jesus’ story ran toward the son too. When the father found out the son wasn’t lost anymore, he celebrated in ways ...

CHAPTER 5 Limo Driver Don’t build a castle when you can build a kingdom. I received a call from someone organizing a national co ...

name on the sign. My instinct was to walk right past the limo guy. But then I thought, What the heck. I’ve never been in a limo ...