gina craig war orphan: Playing God
- 06/09/16 04:45 AM
Life is really hard. I tell my children all the time that life is God’s teachable moment with us. I am soon to be a 67-year old man, and you would think that by now I would have things sorted out. Perhaps I am a very slow learner, but when I look around…I am surrounded by other slow learners. Each day presents each of us with thousands upon thousands of choices to make. What to do? What to say? How to say it? When to speak up? When to shut up? When to make a big deal of something, and when to … (2 comments)
gina craig war orphan: Active Rain Helps The Story Continue…
- 05/05/16 11:52 PM
Back in 1983, my wife and I were watching a television news program on Sunday morning, waiting for our two boys to get ready for church. Little did we know that 15 minutes in front of the television would change our lives forever. The news program dealt with the growing number of children made orphans in El Salvador as that country’s civil war continued on between the “have’s” and the “have not’s”. Having spent several unsuccessful years trying to adopt in this country, and being turned away since we already had two biological children; we both turned to each other and … (34 comments)
gina craig war orphan: My Daughter’s Other Father
- 03/18/15 12:28 AM
My Daughter’s Other Father I wrote a piece the other day entitled, “The Butterfly Effect”; which detailed the exploits of one man's efforts to help change the world. In that post, I discussed how a man gave two teenage girls each $50 and told them to go do something kind with the money. Months later, he receives notification that the girls used the money to fund a celebration of thanksgiving for a village in Sierra Leone. The “Butterfly Effect” is a physics concept which states that the flapping of the wings of a butterfly in one part of the world can create a … (28 comments)
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