RickandSusanna

I’ll be visiting the maternity home for the first time to get a better glimpse of what it is all about. I can’t wait to see the place, meet the expecting moms, learn about their stories, the way they live at the home-and also to introduce Micah and Ellie to this ministry as they will [...]

My wife and I began reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn since we ourselves are living in Brooklyn. The book is an account of a life in poverty at the turn of the century. I began thinking – how would this account differ if written today? Well, here is how it might go: Francie was [...]

“This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place, and I think you people have proven something to the world: that a half a million kids can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing *but* fun and music, and God bless you for it!” ~Spoken to [...]

I would like everyone to take the following challenge. Go to the US Post Office to ship an overnight package. Don’t bring a box, just show up and ask the person at the counter for a box and ask some questions about the shipment. Now go to FedEx and do the same thing. Now ask [...]

It was sitting in an honored spot on her desk, incense wafting through the store that was otherwise a very regular home decor shop. Micah got interested and began touching the wood carving; the eyes, the nose, the mouth. “That’s Buddha!” she said. “I love Buddha… do you?” And as if to accentuate her affection, [...]

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]

Today I took the first steps to being involved with a maternity home here in Brooklyn. I met with the director of the home and all I can say is that I know this is something God wants me to be involved in. It has been a burden on my heart for so many years [...]

Like yesterday’s post, I was once again reminded today about the beauty of old friendships along with new. These two people go way back…Ellen is from Philadelphia and Tom from Brooklyn. Part of what is now officially known as the “Chaffey’s crew,” we spent our summers with their families growing up at our individual cottages [...]

Comrade, let me welcome you to the United Socialist States of America. It’s been a long voyage, you may not realize you’d left, but you have most certainly arrived. In the USSA, we care about the peasant class, the poor, the workers. So much so that we are carefully tending to new ways of creating [...]

I have moved many times in my life and so there are few close friendships I have had for any length of time it seems. Therefore, my friend Shannon is a precious person in my life as our friendship has spanned about 13 years now. Close friends with my older sister first and still, Shannon [...]