Lent

I knew something was wrong. This something had no words, just feeling. Nothing I observed resembled the unthinking epithets hurled in common conversation. Words like lazy and phrases evincing the sentiment, “they’re not like us” plus more, worse and unprintable. Daniel was none of these. I knew him to be kind, gentle, talented, and smart. […]

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry” (Matthew 4: 1,2, NKJV). The son, startled by the familiar voice, turned and locked eyes with his father. He had not known the father