You Have Been our Home
"Our Lord, in all generations you have been our
home.” Psalm 90:1
During my late
elementary school years, and into junior high, my family lived in Alhambra, CA,
part of the East Los Angeles suburbs. In a lower middle class neighborhood,
clapboard houses were the books and apartment buildings the bookends of each
block. It was a great place to grow up, with a peculiar mix of Caucasian and
Latino families. Our school was just up the block with its asphalt playground
and covered lunch area. Around the block we spent our dimes and quarters on
candy at the drug store and sodas at the little hamburger shack.
