If I were an artist I would draw you a picture to depict what the walk that my wife, Noit, made was like, but try to imagine the conditions that they faced when walking home. . . Swollen heads from malnutrition Emaciated bodies 16 year old Noit weighing 20 kilos (45 pounds) Her mother at 25…
As we walk down the road I seem to be constantly talking with people, if not my son. I wave at every kid who walks to school. I talk to teachers coming out of schools. I greet everyone on a bicycle. I say hello to people who watch little stalls and sellers in markets. Pretty…
Today as I walked, prayed and listened to scriptures I was struck by my wife’s walk, under a completely different situation than my son and I walking. The hardest part about walking has been carrying the backpack of all our goods. I packed very light. I have a few light snacks. I have a solar…
Sleeping at the police station our first night was tough. We slept on a hard concrete floor. They offered us two small pillows, so that was our only comfort. The location next to the main road was the biggest problem. All night long, twenty feet from the busiest road in the country, was the sound…
By Paul Hyde I agreed to do the Freedom Walk with my dad about a week ahead of time. I decided to go because we were going to do it in honor of my mom and of those survivors who did the walk as well. I was blessed not to be born during the Pol…
Walking hurts. I know people are curious, but too polite to ask how much I weight, so let me break the ice and offer it to you. In February I weighed 412 pounds. Eeek! Then I got exercising and on a special low-carb diet and when I started walking this morning I weighed 372 pounds. …
Today Noit led me to the very spot where she was held during most of her time as a slave of the Khmer Rouge. Though the houses were gone and new ones built, the waterways were dried up and the stench of death was gone, she led us exactly to the spot where her little…
In Bakan District in western Cambodia there is sacred shire that thousands of people give offering too each day. It is one of the most significant spirit beings which Khmer people revere and worship. The name is “Neak Taa Klang Meung”. It is a ancestral and territorial spirit. The origins of this spirit are actually…
When I was a Boy Scout, each year all the troops in the Philippines would converge across from Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. It was completely voluntary, but I went many years in a row. During the start of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur was commander of the Pacific forces which were based in…
On Easter 1999, my wife on I were on our honeymoon which led us to Israel. It was a time in our lives which we will never forget because the Bible came alive to us walking where Jesus walked. One of the most powerful things for us was the “Via Dolorosa” or the Way of…