The following prayer was first published in Anabaptist World. Dear FATHER, IN WHOM I try to believe, my heart feels muddled and squished, like a stress ball in a clammy hand. My mind is clouded by vague worries and muddied emotions. It feels presumptuous to ask you, the Creator of sparrows and stars, into the small […]
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Which title is supposed to be a clever pun for my made-in-May update. I am sitting at the kitchen table to write this while the children take their afternoon naps. My hair is loose down my back–a pleasantly relaxed feeling for someone who usually wears it up. I am wrapped in two sweaters and a
This post was first published in Anabaptist World. We recently bought a neglected house in town to use as a rental—a property foreclosed on and sold cheap after its owner died. So now we are left with the task of sorting through piles of “junk” once valued by someone. I sort through a box of
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After I posted last, Ivan told me I should make it a point to post every six or seven months. LOL! “I thought I’d post at least once a month,” I told him. For a person who used to post once a week, I thought that already quite a come-down. He thought once a month
Hello readers, Well over a year ago, in December 2023, I began a blog post like this: “Many of the best gifts in my life have been unexpected, and Theodore Jonas Kinsinger, born November 7, 2023, was no exception. He weighed in at 4 lbs 3 oz, was 16 inches long, and arrived almost 8
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