... things, dealing kindly with widows, blessing the poor and the lonely. This lovely little story in the Old Testament is about the blessings of faith, farm and family. In 1984 Sally Field won the best actress Oscar for a movie called Places in the Heart, with Danny Glover and John Malkovich. That story is also about faith, farm and family. Sally Field's character, Edna Spalding, is like Naomi, a widow struggling to make a living on the land in Texas in the 1930s. The bank tries to take her farm, the cotton ...
... of the city. Then the nightmare begins. His car stalls. He phones for help, but before it arrives, a group of young hoodlums surround his car and begin to threaten him. He looks helpless, trapped in the car. Finally, a tow truck arrives. The driver (played by Danny Glover) steps out to hook up the car. The young hoodlums protest. The driver takes the leader of the group aside and announces firmly, “Man, the world ain’t supposed to work like this. Maybe you don’t know that, but this ain’t the way it ...
