Davis Bunn

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told you, I don't know-" The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Front and center!" The black man helped him rise to his feet. "Ain't everybody gets called back from the pit, man. Question is, what are you gonna do when you find out who you are?

The distance had been evaporated by humor

The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,_ Erica reminded herself aloud. __nd a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.__avinia laughed at that. __henever has a woman__ heart listened to her head?

I was thinking...""We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.