I met a man who refused to turn away from the suffering of another human being, no matter the cost to himself. But he didn’t set out to become a hero.
Travel
The Children Are All Ours
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe” (James Baldwin)
A Child Headed Household in Zimbabwe
Photo by Deanna Heyn Let’s say you travel from one of the richest countries in the world. You take 3 flights and land more than thirty hours later at Harare International Airport. Then you head out on an increasingly pockmarked tarmac for two hours, turn on a washboard dirt road, and drive another hour. Next…Read more A Child Headed Household in Zimbabwe
An Invitation to an Upside Down Kingdom: Those Who Mourn…
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted No one chooses the path of mourning, do they? Life has its own way of thrusting each of us into the valley of tears. Who would deliberately seek it out? When my father died, his departure shocked and shook me to the core. The current…Read more An Invitation to an Upside Down Kingdom: Those Who Mourn…
An Invitation to an Upside Down Kingdom
The Beatitudes Joy of Kenya; 2013; 21" x 28 1/2"; mixed media: watercolor, pastel, charcoal. Many years ago, in 2002, I stumbled across an old, out-of-print book about the Beatitudes in a used bookstore on the outskirts of Nairobi. Starting my first day in an unfamiliar environment, displaced from my usual frame of reference, I…Read more An Invitation to an Upside Down Kingdom
Jerusalem
Jerusalem; 2024; 19.5" x 25.5"; mixed media: watercolor, ink, chalk, acrylic. Three of us walk its busy streets at dusk, life pulsing all around. Cars revving, children laughing as they swing in a park, light fading over a vast city. We follow our map down a quieter lane to an obscure gate in a wall,…Read more Jerusalem
Let It Rain
Photo by Keenan Morgan, (c) 2023 We walk their community where half a million people live in six square miles. We slip in sewage-laced mud; duck under live, pirated-electricity wires; crowd into one-room, windowless homes; gaze over a garbage clogged river. We mourn the gap between what is and what should be. In their living…Read more Let It Rain
Unspeakable Treasure, Tucked Into the Cracks
Photo used by permission. (c) 2023 Keenan Morgan, Hope's Promise Kenya Connection Trip, Mathare Valley treasure. We walked their community where half a million people live in six square miles of abject poverty. We slipped in its sewage-laced mud; ducked under its live, pirated-electricity wires; crowded into its one-room, windowless homes; gazed over its garbage…Read more Unspeakable Treasure, Tucked Into the Cracks
Hope and transformation in Vietnam
Our friend tells our team that we will visit a village in the mountains where two kids started their lives who are now members of a Hope's Promise family for orphaned children and where Hope’s Promise implements a Thrive scholarship group for thirty orphaned and vulnerable children who live with relatives. That’s about all we…Read more Hope and transformation in Vietnam
Colleen Briggs Images & Writing 