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Suh who?

That should be the attitude now. The Detroit Lions' best defensive player — and sometimes their biggest headache — will take his talents to South Beach, and you can cry about it or you can move on.

I'd choose the latter. Like LeBron James, Ndamukong Suh will bolt from a Midwest team that drafted him, a team he never led to a championship, for greener pastures in the state of Florida. But James' departure was to join a trifecta of players engineered to win a championship.

Suh's is not.

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HAITI- Back at Have Faith Mission, kids great for feeling renewed. Face painting on tap for today. She's ready for CATS!

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"Fear is how you lose your life, a little bit at a time. What we give to fear we take away from faith."
Great quote to begin my journey to Germany. Tschüß!!

Here is the column (http://mitchalbom.com/d/journalism/27475/cass-proved-homeless-not-same-hopeless) I did on the remarkable Cass Castelow. He leaves behind a wife and seven children. I have helped by donating to the crowdrise fund for his family (http://crowdrise.com/cass), and if you are so inclined, I urge you to do the same. The funeral is tomorrow, and after that, life will really get hard for them. God bless you, Cass.


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No food. No money. And now, no place to sleep. He had been squatting in an abandoned apartment, but someone broke in and stole the copper pipes from under the sink.

He had nowhere to go.

No food. No money. And now, no place to sleep. He had been squatting in an abandoned apartment, but someone broke in and stole the copper pipes from under the sink.

Soon water was gushing, and a groggy AnthonyCastelow woke up floating toward the door.

"What the ..." he remembered thinking.

Now he stood, dripping, before the pastor he worked for, a strong, heavyset man named Henry Covington, and he said he couldn't unload food trucks today, because these were the only clothes he owned and they were soaked.

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pulled the clip of Cass sharing his story in Have a Little Faith. Such a powerful moment of truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9jJy85Fbg

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Remembering Cass

Anthony "Cass" Castelow, 1959-2015' Memorial Fund: http://bit.ly/1MNMyaJ

I am so sorry to have to tell you that our dear friend and inspiration Anthony "Cass" Castelow died last night from heart issues. As you may have read in my accounts of him in the book Have A Little Faith (or the TV movie in which he played himself), Cass was one of a kind, a man who proved you never give up on anybody. His difficult early life of drugs and prison was turned around by the kindness of Pastor Henry Covington and the I Am My Brothers Keeper Church. Henry offered Cass a bed in his home, even when he knew Cass was stealing from him. Ashamed and humbled by such kindness, Cass turned his life around, got clean, and has been an inspiration ever since - and that was nearly 20 years ago. Cass never stopped helping the homeless-- referring to them as "us"--never forgetting what he himself had to endure when he was on the streets. He ran the homeless program at I Am My Brothers Keeper for years, made sure everyone was taken care of, and basked in the glory of helping the least of us. He was kind and kindhearted and gentle and wise beyond his years or education.

And he was the greatest and most loyal friend you could ever ask for.

Recent months saw him battle health issues with the same strength, humor and focus on others that marked his life. His death came very suddenly. He leaves behind a family, a wife and children, and they will need our help - both with immediate funeral needs and future care and educational ones. If you would like to help, a memorial fund has been started through Crowdrise (https://www.crowdrise.com/cass/fundraiser/iammybrotherskeeper). May God bless and keep Cass, who we pray is smiling and arm in arm with his Lord and with his dear friend Henry Covington.

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My two new reading books :)
Super excited..
Half way through "the first call from heaven"..
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