Eight days until Ivan arrives. Twelve days until my marriage. Eighty-two items so far on my list of one thousand gifts. They are like poetry, these gifts: moments dropped like molten crystal, arrested—by mere attention!—a brilliant, sparkling pendant. If I had not seen them, these moments would be nothing special. But I saw them, noticed […]
Do you think it odd to hear me say I am working through anxiety and depression now, during this beautiful and happy time of my life? But I am. I call Ivan, ask him to pray with me. “I wish I could be with you,” he says. “Wish I could hold you.” I feel better
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I recently published an article on The Dock: An Anabaptist Resource for Teaching and Learning. The article is titled “Place Yourself in the Feet of a Child” and begins like this: “Years after my childhood, I returned to the school I once attended. The rooms of the building were empty and cool, the tiled hallways vacant. A
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I met Sofia at a recent writer’s conference, and from a few comments she made (after I’d told her I was engaged to Ivan), discerned that she would have valuable insight on how to work through marriage struggles to build a healthy relationship. “Write a blog post,” I urged her. “Tell my readers your marriage
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“I don’t want to call God an idiot or anything,” I told Ivan, “but if I had created the world, I would have done things differently.” Someone I love made a choice that hurt me, and that is why I said it. “I guess he could have made us all puppets,” Ivan said. Puppets, yes…but
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