A Guest Post by Lilian Stotzfus: Said the ant to the great tree, “I have a question for thee.” The tree stood and waited, and the ant continued. “Are you a he, or are you a she?” Pine needles whispered in the breeze. “I am both a he and a she,” said the tree. “What
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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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The story starts in 1981 when Grandpa and Grandma picked up the Xiong family—Hmong refugees newly arrived in America with a passel of skinny, dark-eyed children—at the Eau Claire airport. Well, actually the story starts before that, during the years of the Vietnam War, when the Hmong people living in the mountains of Laos were
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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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Last week for the first time in my life, I stood in front of a group of people and communicated. It’s not that I haven’t tried some form of public speaking before. During a term of winter Bible school I gave a class presentation on the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears, and
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