[formerly titled "Blast from the past"]
I’ve written about a wandering young man I used to study the Bible with who pops in and out of my life about every 6 to 9 months or so. I’ll call him Jeremy. Thursday night he popped back in with a call to my cell phone.
Jeremy’s not a teenager anymore. He’s got a kid of his own now. I asked him how all the homies are doing, but was saddened when he gave tragic reports on each of them.
A former Hollywood resident, my friend still lives in the LA area but says he can’t visit me in Hollywood anymore because he has too many enemies here. The last time he was in the neighborhood some of those enemies shot at him, so I suggested we get together in a neighborhood halfway between his and mine next week. He liked the idea. Only the Lord knows if it’ll happen. I really hope so.