ARTICLES BY COLLEEN CHAO
Seven years ago I sat in a coffee shop, looking across the table at a handsome man named Eddie. He was not quite a stranger to me, due to weeks of long phone conversations and shared group activities—but he was a huge risk. And I
He was a blind man. A beggar. He lived long before Braille and social welfare, so he was probably far more desperate than the homeless man who holds a cardboard sign outside your car window today. He begged in order to eat. He scrounged to
I was deeply encouraged by this today! Hope you are too…. “Our normal way of living in our human nature is to value results and to look at people as those who can help us achieve what we want or look at people who are
I can pick you out in a crowd—the light in your eyes, the warmth of your spirit, the kindness of your actions. You are His, and I see Him in you. Even though we may not know each other, we are part of the most
If you’ve ever spent time around someone who thinks they know everything, you’ve got a pretty good picture of what I was like in my late teens to early twenties. I had it all figured out, folks. I shared my opinions freely. I judged silently but liberally.
I’ll never forget Miss Moss, with her Coke-bottle glasses and a disability that left her slow and kind. She loved writing notes of encouragement even though her handwriting was chicken-scratchy and sloped down the page. And Earl Roland. He was a hunched old man who loved
When my son was only a few months old, I had a mother-of-four walk by me and say, “Oh, I remember the days of only one child. Enjoy it—you have it so easy!” She was right, you know. Mothering one child is enjoyable, and it
She was the It Girl in college: drop-dead gorgeous, smart, with a slew of handsome suitors and a voice that earned her a recording label. She was going places, and we all anticipated the day when we would say, “I knew Lisa Kolbo before she
It was the last place on earth I wanted to be. I’d always loved flying, but this airplane, with all my worldly belongings crammed into the luggage compartment below me, symbolized the death of my dreams. Just two months before I’d scored a job as
Her message left me shaken. She said if we had just 30 minutes together, she could get things off her chest; she was angry and needed to tell me the specific ways I’d hurt her. We’d had this same conversation a couple of years before,
Seven years ago I sat in a coffee shop, looking across the table at a
He was a blind man. A beggar. He lived long before Braille and social welfare,
I was deeply encouraged by this today! Hope you are too…. “Our normal way of
I can pick you out in a crowd—the light in your eyes, the warmth of
If you’ve ever spent time around someone who thinks they know everything, you’ve got a pretty
I’ll never forget Miss Moss, with her Coke-bottle glasses and a disability that left her
When my son was only a few months old, I had a mother-of-four walk by
She was the It Girl in college: drop-dead gorgeous, smart, with a slew of handsome
It was the last place on earth I wanted to be. I’d always loved flying,
Her message left me shaken. She said if we had just 30 minutes together, she
