Month: October 2013

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Oct 29, 2013

Keep running, boys–they’re right behind you

It was the annual open house at the school up the road. For days, the 7-year-old whose blue jeans I launder had been buzzing. For days, the book fair had

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Oct 28, 2013

Fearful no more, for Father has come

Raising my eyes toward the heavens, I addressed my complaint to Almighty: “Where are the girls in my life?!” And that quick, Little Tooter dropped this, “They’re in Ohio.” I

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Oct 24, 2013

When pestilence stalks in the darkness, no fear

Settled in bed late at night, we’d hear it. Someone overhead, walking quiet, walking soft on the wooden floorboards. Often, it was one of the boys. “Go to bed!” we’d

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Oct 22, 2013

Changing of seasons brings renewal, transformation

Driving into town on a bright, clear day, I see it. To the left, a tall maple with color aflame shouts “glory” from its spot by the road. Turning onto

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Oct 21, 2013

When you don’t know what to pray

I’d texted in a panic. That quick, she’d called, hearing me out and walking me through. Then she said it, the nugget-truth that turned on the light:  “He always intercedes

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Oct 15, 2013

Local crickets make racket, model simple faith in complicated world

“Dear Resident Cricket.” That’s how the note began. “After weeks of your cheerful little ‘songs of praise’ down there in the hinterlands (i.e., the basement), I can hardly remember my

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Oct 14, 2013

When you’re going on a bear hunt

Sitting “criss cross, applesauce” in a circle around her, Auntie would pull us right in. Eyes wide, she’d begin, “We’re going on a bear hunt.” And eyes wide, we’d repeat

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Oct 08, 2013

“Accidentally” running a marathon, performing surgery, pulling teeth are out

It may be one of the strangest stories of the year. In Amherst, Ontario, recently, a 34-year-old woman accidentally ran a marathon. A Canadian wire service, Postmedia News, reported that

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Oct 04, 2013

Future’s promise in seed

“Look how tall it is!” I’d said in wonder, noting the unusual height of the corn (thinking, you see, of last summer’s drought).  The beans, too, had flourished, laying row

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Oct 01, 2013

It’s a parade, not a three-ring circus, for the Queen Mother

It comes on a crisp, fall day. There we are, perched on a sidewalk just before that famous pie. Peering through the plate glass window, it stretches as far as

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