Sometimes we receive letters, or more likely emails nowadays, from which we instinctively turn away before we're done reading.Such was the email Stew and I received yesterday from Vickie, a dear friend for more than forty years, telling us she'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. That's a bad type of cancer, I thought initially, as …
Tag: prayer
How I lost my faith in prayer
Over the past eighteen months, a random chain of events has effectively wiped out my faith in the power or even the sense of prayer.Chief among these events was, ironically, our attendance at a newly organized church in San Miguel. Then came the death of a contemporary named Louie, whom we knew only briefly but came …
El Rancho Santa Clara 