As I lay in my bed unable to sleep I challenged Him: Pull out another miracle. Send him back. You can do that. You’re God. At that point in my grief, I envisioned how utterly fantastic it would be for others to see what a mighty and awesome God we serve. They could witness a modern-day miracle! I was convinced the only way for this to happen was for God to send Joseph back. It would be a win/win situation! Dozens would come to know Jesus—and —I’d have Joseph home in time for supper.

For me, this is when the act of watching transforms into the act of witnessing.To witness something implies a responsiveness, the response/ability of the viewer toward the performer. It is radically different from what we might call the 'consuming' gaze that says 'here, you entertain me, I bought a ticket, and I'm going to sit back and watch.' This traditional gaze doesn't want to get involved, doesn't want to give anything back.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.

We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witnessed, and so we kept it safely guarded until the time we could bring it out, and show it to others, and say, 'Behold. This is the worst thing man can do'.

“We believe that the Arroyo government is using false witnesses to file trump up charges against progressive lawmakers and political opposition that would result to a 'national crackdown' on legitimate dissent.”

“Casey is not a good campaigner. That's why Rendell mopped up the floor with him. He's charisma challenged. He's not as quick witted as Santorum. He doesn't come off as well,”

“Casey is not a good campaigner. That's why Rendell mopped up the floor with him. He's charisma challenged. He's not as quick witted as Santorum. He doesn't come off as well.”

“It's hard to understate a 66. It's the best score I've witnessed as a golf coach. (Ryan) expects a lot of himself, (but) even he couldn't criticize his game today.”

“Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever -- one day we will overhear it.”

“He was just one of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever met. The Parkinson's just decimated his body but he had a sharp wit up until the end.”