The international nongovernmental organization Global Witness found that 1,700 land and water defenders globally were killed in the past decade — an average of one

Perhaps every book has an ideal reader, one who feels the book is written with their needs in mind and that fits their life journey.

So, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!  — 2 Corinthians 5:17 

My parents modeled for me a gentle faith, as integral to their lives as the sure changing of the seasons. My dad was a pastor