Freedom I remember when we were teenagers, Dad told us, “You never have to listen to me if you don’t want to. If I tell you something you don’t want to do, don’t do it.” As a conscientious child raised to uphold the twin pillars of “Obey God” and “Obey your parents,” such a release […]
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A guest post by Dorcas Smucker, blogger at Life in the Shoe: *** This post is about piles of stuff. And it’s mostly for young people. This is dangerous, I know, to classify myself not only as old, but also with wisdom to impart. On the few occasions that I write or speak to young people,
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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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