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Summer 2004, Vol. 4, No.
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Editorial
SACRED TIME AND
SUNFLOWER MORNINGS
Michael A. King
" Each [article] in some way looks
in the ordinary or even the twisted for
the sacramental—and in some way
finds or at least points to it."
LETTER
" I just read your lament on the
lack of women contributing to DSM and
realize the urgency of the
situation."
POETRY
BY CHRISTINE R. WIEBE
"I wish if I am going to get that
close to death/that I could see it./ Why
didn’t I see Jesus?"
POETRY
BY JOYCE PEACHEY LIND
"I’d never seen him cry
before—/my father."
SACRED
TIME
Arthur Strimling
"Anyway, I’m thinking baseball
is like Shabbat because it’s so
slow, so out of time. So useless and
wonderful and all about nothing
happening. On Shabbat we work at making
nothing happen."
SUNFLOWER
MORNING
Carol Schreck
"How is it that I can become a
delighted child at the table of my adult
daughter? Have I got it right or have I
conceded my maternal role?"
Beneath the
Skyline
SAVING MOMENTS
Deborah Good
"Hopeful moments don’t erase
the terror of the world, but they do
creep into it. . . ."
Kingsview
SADDLING UP OUR BODIES
FOR OUR SPIRITS TO GALLOP
Michael A. King
"What if our spirits could gallop on
our bodies? What a radical question,
because many of us see our bodies as
enemies of our spirits. That’s how I
was raised, and like many of us I still
tend to fall into such thinking
today."
FROM
LARAMIE TO BAGHDAD: DREAMS OF PEACE IN A
WORLD AT WAR
Hope Nisly
"Here in the town where Matthew
Shepherd died there are many loving
people, I am sure. But even the most
loving among us find it difficult to love
outside our own circles."
Reel
Reflections
"ETERNAL
SUNSHINE": THE SWEET TORTURE OF
MEMORY
David Greiser
"’Eternal Sunshine’ is
carried by a melancholy humor that
wonders why we keep trying when
relationships so often fail—and then
answers its own question."
THE
SINS JESUS JUDGED: WHICH ARE THEY,
REALLY?
Randy Klassen
"What were the sins condemned by
Jesus? . . . I found only three
references to sexual sins: lust,
adultery, and divorce. Homosexuality is
not even mentioned."
LETTER
FROM A NEW WIFE
Laura Lehman Amstutz
"I’ve discovered I like
cleaning the bathroom. It’s
something I know how to do thanks to my
mom’s training when I was 10."
POSTHUMOUS
LOVE LETTER TO MS. SCOTT DALE
Glenn Lehman
"Scottie, it never occurred to me
that you would not live forever."
Books,
Faith, World & More
SEEING WITH OTHER EYES:
A REFLECTION ON THE HEMINGWAY MESSAGE
Daniel Hertzler
"So this is the message of
Hemingway: Life is hard, much of it is
banal, and sooner or later we die."
The
Turquoise Pen
SHARP
Nöel R. King
"The more he sat there, the more he
realized the day was deliciously clear
and his vision marvelously sharp."
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