Everybody, Always

who like to play pranks on me, so I immediately went down the list of suspects in my mind. It was a long list. The body of the m ...

the gurney to be taken to the operating room. Before they rolled him into surgery, I prayed for him and Randy, then I gave Charl ...

CHAPTER 22 Kabi What we punish, God can forgive. The minute he attacked Charlie, Kabi became my enemy. He wasn’t a little evil; ...

Forgiveness? For a witch doctor who tried to sacrifice Charlie? My immediate reaction was—absolutely not. He’d tried to kill the ...

many of the problems we have turning into the men we want to be are the same. After one of my meetings with Kabi outside of his ...

men, inviting them to begin the adventure of becoming love themselves. I realized in that moment Kabi probably knows more about ...

doctor I helped convict. I saw Jesus, standing barefoot in Kabi’s clothes. I saw a guy who was becoming love. ...

CHAPTER 23 Where Do You Want to Go? Big love takes us to high places. Every one of my kids went on a ten-year-old birthday adven ...

toward the cloud-covered mountaintop and asked, “Doesn’t that look awesome?” I looked at him and just shook my head. I wanted to ...

Hershey bars. I was also looking for a bathroom. The guide shook his head at me as I hopped off rocks and jumped over logs. Ever ...

The most important part of our ceremony wasn’t what I said or all the medals. It was what I didn’t say. You see, I didn’t tell C ...

CHAPTER 24 Graduation Day Love always multiplies itself. Ever since the trial against Kabi, I’ve been meeting with witch doctors ...

I try to absolutely terrify them. By the looks of their big eyes and body language, it usually works. Because I’m learning about ...

nice to them or tolerating them. It means helping them. So I started a witch doctor school. I know, I know, I know. Don’t freak ...

idea, not ours. The people who creep us out aren’t obstacles to having faith; they’re opportunities to understand it. Our gradua ...

doctors who used to do unthinkable wrongs but have now experienced the power of love and acceptance and grace at our school. Her ...

watching us, knowing full well all that will be left standing in the end is our love. I bet our spouses, kids, and friends are w ...

EPILOGUE It’s been a busy year. I got malaria on a trip to Uganda and almost died. I could have avoided it by taking a nickel pi ...

Adrian, and Karl is retiring from the attorney general’s office after twenty years of navigating his faith in love. I haven’t be ...

me: Everybody, always. See you on Tom Sawyer Island. Bob ...