It was dollar-a-slice night at Carmela’s Pizza. This local dive was our favorite place to be on Tuesdays. While you might infer our affinity was due to the fact that Tuesday was also dollar draft night, the real reason for this ritual was simpler: Friendship. Sometimes all the guys would come out, but on this particular occasion it was just my Brazilian friend Davi (DAH'vee) and I. We sat at the usual spot, talking intermittently around grease logged bites of pizza. After we finished and paid the check, I stood up to go. But Davi didn’t stand up. Instead he looked up at me quizzically.
“Are you in a hurry?”
“Noooo, not really,” I replied, clearly puzzled.
He nodded his head and asked, “Do you have to be somewhere?”
I slowly shook my head and shrugged, “Nope, I don’t.” What does he want? I wondered, raising my eyebrows.
“Why don’t you sit down and lets talk for a while?” he indicated toward the booth seat opposite his.
“Ohhhhhh, ya!” came my slow reply. “I’d never thought of that before!” I stood there grinning like an idiot at my discovery:
I don’t have to get up and leave right away!
This is not another checkbox on my to-do list.
Huh… Continue reading “Friendship”
Video Update From East Africa
Kyle and Amy Ledyard check in from the field in this quick video update from Moshi, Tanzania. Pray for them as they are half way thru a 2 week trip to Kenya and Tanzania.
The Pursuit of God
The Purusit of God, by AW Tozer, has recently went into the public domain. I highly recommend this book.
If you would like to download a PDF version, click here.
The book is also available in Kindle format (google for that), or thru Librivox in a free audio book. Check out the audiobook here.
I hope this is a blessing to you, as it has been to me, in both formats.
– Scott McClelland
Nicaragua2013 Trip Report
There are many things to say about my recent time in Nicaragua. I’ll try to be brief, however. Something different about this time is that I traveled to Nicaragua solo, which I have not done before. As a general rule, I don’t travel alone, and only remember ever doing it one time before. That trip was to Mexico in the Winter 2008. I have memories of it being cold on lonely. Fortunately, that was not the case this time. It seemed to be purposeful that I was going alone.