Jesus and Me ... and the Cats

Isaiah 61:1-4 Luke 6:32-36 N ever in my life had I seen that many tattoos and body piercings.  At the time, I was the coordinator for the Adult Literacy Program for Des Moines Area Community College.  As part of my job, I trained and matched volunteers with adults who could not read and people in our adult English as a Second Language Program.  That beautiful fall Saturday, I was conducting a "come and see" training for people interested in becoming tutors.  Bill had call the day before and expressed an interest in becoming a volunteer tutor, so I invited him to attend the training. So, into a room full of very middle class people (including me), with nary a pair of blue jeans among us, walked Bill, neat and clean, wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt, and sporting a lot of tattoos and body piercings. That day, we were all pushed out of our comfort zones and across the street by Bill.  Silence fell over the room, and God seemed to be saying to me, "Well, what...

Matthew 28:18-20 Acts 2:42-47 Have you ever looked in the bathroom mirror in the morning and seen one of your parents?   Or when you look at the children in your family, you see the family resemblance to an older family member?   Does she have her father’s eyes or does he laugh just like Grandma Hattie? As long as I can remember, my father told me how much I reminded him of his mother – Grandma Jenny.  Until my father’s death, the only picture I had seen of Grandma Jenny was her wedding picture.  Sure enough – she looked just like me.  Same round face, same high forehead, same coloring.  There is no doubt that I am related to that young bride. After Dad died, I was going through an old picture album and discovered a picture of what looked like my father wearing a dress.  It was a picture of Grandma Jenny in her sixties or seventies.  Without thinking, I blurted out to my husband, Tom, “Honey, I’m going to look like my dad in drag ...