" Doreen and Dianne spent the following autumn with us joining us in our outings downtown, visiting the bars, the cafés and the clubs and the street corners with us. For them, they were discovering Christ in people and places where we are not ordinarily expected to encounter him. They both seemed to shine in those places and many were attracted to their maternal warmth and sense of unconditional love. We were together and praying together almost every day. Doreen sold her condo that winter and the equity she donated to our community. Then with Dianne they rented a house in the Mount Pleasant area where they set up a ministry of hospitality.
That was when I remembered a dream I had had some time ago, I think a year before I found the house in Richmond. In that dream I saw an old rambling yellow house with an old fashioned bathtub outside it. That was exactly the house on Ferndale, and the previous owners had turned an antique bathtub into a planter that was just outside the house. Then I went driving with some friends and we ended up at a grey house, the exact house that Doreen and Dianne were now renting in Mount Pleasant. Unfortunately, not all fairy tales have happy endings..."
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