A robin contemplates, still as a statue on the lawn. He regards the world long in profile and then turns and regards it a while facing me. Now he hops across the lawn, jerkily slowly, pausing often. This is me also in life right now. Contemplating. Hopping jerkily across deadlines but listening, thinking in between. […]
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This post was first published in the column I write for Anabaptist World. I thought I’d also share it with you. *** Some time ago, one of the pastors at the church I attend, Junior Beachy, spoke on the roots of abusive behavior. His insights were helpful to me and, I thought, relevant to the church
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Lately some words from an article I once wrote have been running through my mind: We serve a God who is a master of fixing. I wrote the article for the CLP Sunday school papers at the ripe wise age of 23 and am a little embarrassed to read it now. It seems so very
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I read a blog post recently by a woman who had been going to a church “similar to the Mennonites” and found herself in bondage. After leaving that church, after realizing her identity in Christ and that she is a beautiful woman of God who does not need to shut up and be hidden, she
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For the last two Mondays, Ivan and I have attended a DVD series on parenting being shown at a little local country church. The series is called “Shepherding a Child’s Heart” by Ted Tripp, and I have been blessed and inspired. What stands out to me from this Monday’s session is this: our children, like
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