We wanted to set up the table on behalf of the orphans and other Indians in need because of their persecution. I wanted to help as much as possible by using the table to get the word out for prayer for them.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters . . .

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

They set me down at this big board table with big black leather chairs and they put me at the head. It was pretty intimidating, but it was a good experience.

Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.

And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.