The LORD make his face to shine upon thee… Numbers 6:24a KJV In 1965, Shirley Bassey recorded a song simply titled, People. Although you may not know the entire tune, the opening line is one you probably can sing, “People, people who need faces, are the luckiest people in the world.” Wait…, I may have gotten that wrong…, or maybe I didn’t. I have come to realize in the last year how important faces are, and how much we all need them staring back at us. The area that spans the

“Surely every man walks in a vain show…” Psalms 39:6 KJV Last week I pushed down a tree with my bare hands. In case you are not yet impressed with this herculean event, the monster before me stood 30 foot high (having been broken off from an earlier conflict) and the base of the tree was bigger than I could put my arms around. Down it came with a thud. After beating my chest and howling at the daytime moon, I looked around to see that no one was watching. My chest fell as a d