I met Sofia at a recent writer’s conference, and from a few comments she made (after I’d told her I was engaged to Ivan), discerned that she would have valuable insight on how to work through marriage struggles to build a healthy relationship. “Write a blog post,” I urged her. “Tell my readers your marriage […]
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“I don’t want to call God an idiot or anything,” I told Ivan, “but if I had created the world, I would have done things differently.” Someone I love made a choice that hurt me, and that is why I said it. “I guess he could have made us all puppets,” Ivan said. Puppets, yes…but
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Dad harvested his first three bushels from the apple orchard. Down below the shed in our sloped field, apples still ripen on the three-year-old trees, slim and smooth sided and hung heavy with fruit. Dad planted those trees during the time when he first seriously considered selling the milk cows. By the time the two-year-old
Tears come to my grandma’s eyes when she tells us goodbye and thanks us for coming to visit. “I’m not worthy,” she says. Silly Grandma. We have visited her seldom, far less often than she deserves. She probably won’t last much longer now, my aunts tell us. Her kidneys are failing, and she won’t go
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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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