Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to TrustThis story, excerpted from Next Door Savior, will become the Easter giveaway book for churches next spring in the vein of He Did This Just for You. In this story a woman gives her garbage of shame to the trashman; an old man hands over his heavy bag of regrets. Hundreds walk to the landfill and find it filled with trash. "Give it to me. Tomorrow. At the landfill. Will you bring it?" He rubs a moist smudge from her cheek with his thumb and stands.

This became her motto

Real cowboys can ride

they wonder who he is--and why he won't speak

Teenaged Joan of Arc followed God’s call and liberated her country

does that mean our faith is weak

Fifteen years ago

With her book available in 10 languages and in more than 30 countries

healthy living

Within eighteen months

Sometimes we’re allowed to glimpse the beauty within the brokenness

And that's the problem

Little did I dream of the changes eleven years had brought to the man I once loved—which included three small children waiting with him at the station