Dear Cheryl, You would have liked the balloons. There were dozens of them, massed together in colorful bunches and handed out to your little son Braxton’s cousins at your burial. I thought the children would let them go all at once, but they released them slowly, one by one, and we watched them drift up […]
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Lying in the grass last Sunday afternoon, on the slope of yard next to the road, I turned my face away from the sun and away from Liz and Lavina lying next to me, closed my eyes. I wanted only to listen and not to talk, wanted only to feel the sun warm on my
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Remember hearing about the Nickel Mines shooting back in October of 2006? That incident touched the hearts of many people, but who knew it would reach a long arm across the ocean to touch the lives of the Kurds? On October 2, 2006, a milk truck driver named Charles Roberts walked into an Amish classroom in
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Hannah meets me walking from my car up to the horse auction. She is young, sweet sixteen, with long blonde hair, a thin pink jacket, jeans. Leather toed-boots peek out below the denim, and she lifts a pant leg to show me the pink camouflage on the side of the boot. She fits the atmosphere
Last week for the first time in my life, I stood in front of a group of people and communicated. It’s not that I haven’t tried some form of public speaking before. During a term of winter Bible school I gave a class presentation on the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears, and
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