(For the girl I lit the candles for)

Those two little tents are nothing in the history of the world.  But I think they meant everything to God.  They were truly stars shining in the summer night.

Starting and leading that drama team will be one of my proudest accomplishments. It used all the skills I had picked up to that point and proved that nothing in life is wasted.  I had worked an after-school job in high school doing clerical type work for a startup software company.  Really repetitive, boring, and basic duties.  But it’s there, however, where I learned how organizations function and how their parts should work together.  It helped me to put that team together – it lasted for 20 years, the longest running short term missions project at church, only taken down by COVID.

That experience would also come in useful 20+ years later when I would have to comprehend how the 55.000 strong NYPD functioned and guide it in a concrete jungle of dreams and nightmares,  

From time to time, I ask God to remember those tents when I ask for His help. One year, I drew a picture of you in my notebook. 

I still have it.