Poem and pictures by Sharla Baer. *** Hello. I am Sharla. I paint and draw emotions and life. I love music and art and old books. Coffee too, but I don’t think I’m addicted yet. The best part of my life is my fiance, Chadwick. He and I will be married this fall. This summer […]
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Please don’t misunderstand what I just said. The sex crimes committed by one man should never have happened. The failure by a few CAM leaders to report those sex crimes and make that man accountable should never have happened. The seeming attempt to gloss over the situation by multiple CAM leaders who later learned of
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By a Mennonite pastor, Conrad. (A true story. Some names have been changed.) Last week, Conrad shared Life’s Hard Lessons: As Learned through my Parents’ Marriage Struggles. This week, we hear more of his story. It was a dark and cool evening outside. Inside the vehicle, a pickup truck, the air was warm with a
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By a Mennonite pastor, Conrad (A true story. Some names have been changed to protect privacy.) There were a dozen children in my childhood home. Life was very interesting growing up. Earl and I often played
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A book called Prayer, by Ole Hallesby — a Norwegian Christian who wrote in the early 1900s — changed my understanding of that basic-to-our-humanity, up-reaching thing we call prayer. I will share in my own words a few of Hallesby’s thoughts. Prayer is not words; it is an attitude of the heart. You can pray
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