Published 15 years before his own cold death, Master and Man is a quintessential Tolstoyian story. He sets the scene of a good, flawed, man with a self-absorbed, money-grubbing master…
All rooms are operating with a practiced precision. Today is the last day for surgery. Doctors check on and schedule patients for discharge. Little girls and little boys have recovered…
Guatemala Mission – Surgery Day 4
1 Corinthians 13 says that if you do not have love you are a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal. It says that knowledge without love is worth nothing, and…
Guatemala Mission – Surgery Day 3
It is a special thing to be anointed by God. Rev. Silverio opened up the Word this morning to Psalm 133. In the psalm, King David talks about the pleasantness…
Guatemala 2017 – Surgery Day 2
Sausage, eggs, and cheese piled together and wrapped in a flour tortilla accompanied by one, then two, cups of coffee is a welcome start to the day. Truly blessed are…
Guatemala Mission – Surgery Day 1
6:15am – The melodic sounds of voices drift on the cool morning breeze and mingle with white cotton plants and blue flowers in the courtyard of la Quinta de las…
Triage Day
The alarm goes off. It's 3:30am on the Eastern coast of the U.S. and the Sun has only just risen over Iceland. Five minutes later the back-up alarm goes off,…