One of my favorite passages in the Bible is from Psalms: “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
For all the complexity and commercialization swirling around the run up to the Olympic Games, there remains at the heart of the Games a wonderful, and wonderfully simple, ideal: the pursuit of excellence.
Don’t ever doubt that your prayers for a hostage’s safety—or for the safety of anyone who may be in some other kind of danger anywhere in the world—can make a difference.
Over the centuries since the Bible reported on Noah and the building of his ark, many people have risked life and limb in an effort to find out whether there was a real ark, where it finally landed, and if any trace of the great ship remains.
My husband José and I had traveled with another couple down the southern coast of Spain and across the Strait of Gibraltar to Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa that’s right on the border of Morocco.