"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
"While you are not her Savior, and shouldn’t carry that burden around, you are there to protect her. She has one knight in shining armor with skin on in this world. You."
"Did someone open a card under his name? The next day, the day I called that hotel room and heard his voice, his voice 1,000 miles away, and then heard her voice in the background, that was the day I broke."
"I question my own motives in writing this. Is it sordid? Is it to gain sympathy? Is it to avoid criticism or worse, to benefit from the publicity criticism brings? Lord, I hope not."
Focus on the Family has recently embarked upon a hilariously executed "Save the Elephants" campaign charging us all to do conflict better. In their original YouTube series entitled "The Elephant in the Room," the organization debuts a short-form comedy series developed by their social media strategy team.
"I always had been a light sleeper, so despite his gentle steps I still woke as he moved about. Within a few minutes, he came to my side and laid a goodbye kiss upon my lips. 'Have a good day, sweetie.' He whispered. 'Love you'...It wasn’t the kind of goodbye I liked."
