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by David Anderson

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A Church Comes Down

February 9, 2013 by David Anderson 18 Comments

I found out today that the church I grew up in had been torn down. Calvary Baptist Church in Yankton, South Dakota. My cousin Tom, who still lives in South Dakota, sent a link to a story in the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan—or the P&D, as we called it, the newspaper I used to […]

Filed Under: Change, Community, Family, Love

We Need a Little Christmas

December 20, 2012 by David Anderson 1 Comment

You know that holiday music staple, taken from Jerry Herman’s Broadway musical Mame. In the show, the song comes just after Mame has lost her fortune in the great Wall Street crash of 1929. Mame decides that she, her little nephew Patrick and the two household servants need some cheering up. For we need a […]

Filed Under: Grace, Happiness, Love, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it

Hurricane Prayer

November 5, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

After church on Sunday I went to visit a family whose home had been flooded in the hurricane. When I pulled up to the house it looked fine, frankly. Everywhere there was evidence that water had been here and gone. The street had a slick mud coating and the grass in the lawn was matted […]

Filed Under: Community, Faith/Trust, Grace, Love

All My Children

October 25, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

  The child had been wounded in a rocket attack in Syria. She lay, arms and legs splayed, on a hospital gurney too big for her. An oxygen mask cupped her nose and mouth. Tubes and lines grew like dark tendrils from her arms. I turn the newspaper page. Next article. I’m looking for stories […]

Filed Under: Community, Family, Love

Fear of Falling

October 15, 2012 by David Anderson 1 Comment

Watching Felix Baumgartner’s jump from 24 miles up at the edge of space I’m reminded of how basic is that fear of falling. As I watched the video I had two, opposite reactions. What must it be like to leap from such magisterial heights? (What is it that makes us back away from precarious heights […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Fear, Freedom, Happiness, Letting Go, Love, Reality--trusting it

You Are Loved

September 24, 2012 by David Anderson 4 Comments

It’s hard to believe, but in the first part of the twentieth century, psychologists and doctors were suspicious of nurses who wanted to pick up newborn infants in the hospital nursery and hold them. Some doctors observed that infants who were picked up by nurses got sick, and concluded that the close contact had transmitted […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Family, Intimacy, Love

The Eyes of Mark

September 8, 2012 by David Anderson 5 Comments

When I walked into the grocery store, he was standing by the door. I’d never seen him before, but he was wearing a uniform and I knew he was an employee. I said an average hello, and he responded with a hello so happy it startled me. Then he handed me a shopping basket. I […]

Filed Under: Community, Happiness, Intimacy, Love

The Shock of Heaven

August 6, 2012 by David Anderson 13 Comments

This is called “The Best Poem in the World,” which isn’t true. But it is the best doggerel in the world. Read it and see if you don’t agree.   The Best Poem in the World I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven’s door, Not by the beauty of it all, by the lights or […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Grace, Heaven, Love, Mercy

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