Psalm 18 – Household Words:

RESCUE. Psalm 18.

Pictured: Guard House for lifeguards on Miami Beach. Once in Maine, my father and I were standing on a pier talking to someone. My six-year-old brother Dennis was swimming in the lake. He was trying to get into an inner tube. But when he swam up to it, another boy was in it. Dennis seemedContinue reading “RESCUE. Psalm 18.”

The Lifeguard.

My dad spoke often of the years he spent as a lifeguard at Ridgecrest in North Carolina. He remembered pulling some 75 people from the depths, most of them poor swimmers who had no business in the murky waters of a deep lake. Then one day I saw my father in action. When my brotherContinue reading “The Lifeguard.”