Why I Want to Keep the Biblical Feasts
This spring, on a rather grumpy day at the end of a busy week, my children and I picked newly grown garden tea and gave it to a friend.
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outside the box
A New Format and Anabaptist Women Scaling Heights
Dear readers, I’d like to hear what you think of the format for this month’s update. My four headers were repurposed from that well-known wedding jingle: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” Let me know if this is a format you like and would enjoy seeing me continue. Since about half of my
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The Quest
As a preteen, I picked up a pen pal from Ghana. She told me how she was trying to save money for college. “We don’t go to college unless we have a purpose for it,” I remember writing back. We being conservative Mennonites and purpose being a vital occupation like a doctor or a nurse.
The Blissful Sound of Silence
There is a quiet place I carry with me, I wrote once. The words still hang on an index card beside my desk. No matter where I go, or how busy my life has been, or how many distractions I feel around me, that quiet place is there if I pause and wait for it. But
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The Joy that Holds the Universe Together
One of the people I most admire–a writing mentor about the age of my parents–recently lost her strong young-man son. My heart goes out to her. Life is so full of surprises. Not all of them are bad. But some of them are very hard indeed. “Hold your life with an open hand,” a beautiful
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