In 1 Corinthians 13.11, the verse says, “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
San Francisco, one of America’s most iconic cities, is in decay. Smash-andgrab robberies and open shoplifting have forced businesses to close, law enforcement has tied hands, and urine, feces and the used syringes of zombie drug addicts litter the streets.
The continuing incursion of illegal border crossers into the United States is the most astonishing story in American politics. There have been days recently in which 10,000 people crossed illegally into the country — and remember, in a long-ago era, when Barack Obama was president, a tenth of that was considered a crisis.
Wednesday evening on the campus of Louisiana Tech something very special took place. It’s also very rare for a collection of legendary athletes to gather back at their alma mater for such a ceremony.
My grandfather loved to “prowl” in old cemeteries. “Prowling” meant walking among the gravesites, reading the inscriptions on the headstones, and if Gran knew anything about the individual, their family or circumstances of their demise, ruminating about it.