From the conversation in that apartment that night with Kevin Ryan, we shortly thereafter began a 30-day journey that was unforgettable. Someone suggested, either him or me, that we do this for the next 30 days. It was the last day of July, a Friday night and our team was about to head home. Kevin [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Kevin Ryan was about 120 in the world in the world tennis profession. He was a professional of sorts. He was the highest ranked tennis player I’d ever met. I never saw him play, but understood him to be good. He was nice looking, curly hair and a bit shorter than me. He was smaller. [...]
Alethea was the oldest daughter of Hector and Alma Henriquez. I really liked her. She blew me away with her personality and life. I had never met anyone quite like her. I was a very lonely man and she was a young lady full of life. She was cute, sassy and lots of fun to [...]
The first time I met Hector Henriquez was our first Sunday morning at the church meeting. I went through the door and met him quickly thereafter. He is Puerto Rican. He was raised hard. He was a bum of sorts hooked on crack and probably a few other things. His story was very similar to [...]
Without question some of the most gracious people I have ever met in my life were in NY. One time we stayed with Vivian Williams in Flushing. We arrived at her very small apartment. She was a short ½ black, ½ white lady about 40 years old, maybe 35. She had a son named Vinny. [...]
It was surreal. I engaged God. I felt like one very large hypocrite. I felt like I had never known God. God was different in New York. I was learning him all over again. When God said he loved the world I then realized the world was not all white and starchy with lots of [...]
