The image of Jimmy Stewart, as George Bailey, running through the streets of Bedford Falls shouting to everyone he sees, even the Bank Examiner, “Merry Christmas!” is a picture of the joy this season offers, for real. That part always gets me. It was November 9th. I had arrived at the church for a movie night which…
Month: December 2018
The Atheist
I was just arriving home. I had walked up our street dragging my suitcase behind me as I had just taken MAX from the airport into Beaverton and walked the three miles from there. That’s when our neighbor saw me. He shouted out joyfully and waved: “Hey? Are you running away?” “Nah.” I laughed. “I…
Real Walks Take Courage
In my prayer journal, August 3, 1982, less than one year after our walk began as a married couple (August 22nd the previous year), Karen was hitting the pain of some of the many points of injury she had experienced as a child. She was in counseling. It was tough from the start for us…
A New Man Story
On Saturday morning I joined about 50 others to walk 2.5 miles down 82nd Avenue along a strip, one of many, used for sex trafficking. It is also the same blocks that many numbers of high schoolers and younger children walk before and after school every day encountering prostitutes and pimps, and passing many strip…
caminowalk2016 