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Summer 2002, Vol. 2, No.
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Editorial
A HOLY MESS
"We must constantly negotiate how we
will live between what could be and what
is."
RESPONSE
BY PAUL SCHROCK and LETTER BY RUTH NAYLOR
POETRY BY
LEONARD NOLT and
JEREMY FREY
Kingsview
THE TRIP TO WALMART
Michael A. King
"What was on our faces was something
almost like awe combined with whatever
crumpling effect a face gives off when
values thought to be for life prove to be
about as strong as toilet paper. We liked
Walmart and we were horrified to realize
this."
FACES
David M. Flowers
"Cancer dramatically changed my
physical appearance as well as my
underlying psychological support."
THIS
ABOVE ALL: MUSINGS AFTER THE DEATH OF A
DOG
Polly Ann Brown
"It’s possible I could have
given Cinder two more fairly decent
months. . . . I’ll never know: I
accepted other’s views, looked
around, failed to look within. I yielded
when I didn’t want to yield, gave up
my own authority (and secretly blamed
those to whom I had yielded)."
GALLOPING,
NAKED, IN THE NIGHT
Katie Funk Wiebe
"I have known too much fear. I have
been too hesitant at times to move ahead.
I have seen a ferocious lion behind every
blade of grass. . . . If I have learned
anything about myself as I look back, it
is how little I have galloped at
breakneck speed."
REFLECTIONS
ON WALKING THE LAYBRINTH
Elizabeth Raid
It was during my midlife journey . . .
that I discovered the labyrinth. As an
ancient shape with universal and timeless
appeal, the labyrinth offers me a new way
to experience the metaphor of a
journey—walking and talking with
God.
Marginalia
THE LOW-DOWN ON SMALL
TALK
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
"I think my new affinity for small
talk also comes from a realization of its
usefulness, not only for avoiding awkward
silences with someone I’ve just met,
but for staking out regions of common
ground.
"THEY
WON’T LET ME CRY": BECOMING A
CARING CONGREGATION
Hubert Schwartzentruber
As we sat on the log she began to sob and
said, "They won’t let me
cry." Streams of tears were watering
the log we sat on. "I just want to
cry and they won’t let me cry,"
she said again.
A
JESUS SHAPE
Randy Klassen
"Jesus asks us not how well we may
argue, but how faithfully do we follow.
Close following will produce the Jesus
shape, the tangible expression of
selfless, limitless, unbounded
love."
Reel
Reflections
WHAT IS REAL?
Dave Greiser
"Reality, someone has said,
ain’t what it used to be. How do we
know what is real? Film itself invites
the question, since in the very act of
watching a movie we suspend our
involvement in the real world."
Books,
Faith, World & More
AN ACCOUNT FULL OF
IRONIES: REVIEW OF THE
EARTH IS THE LORD’S,
BY JOHN L. RUTH
Daniel Hertzler
"How do you cherish and pass on a
radical heritage? Do you try to keep the
world at bay? Or do you cooperate with
the neighbors? What if you become
well-to-do? John Ruth’s history of
Lancaster Mennonite Conference begins to
offer answers."
The
Turquoise Pen
WOMAN DISTRACTED BY WORK
ON THE JOB
Noël R. King
"Nicole Beraina, of Reston,
Virginia, recently sued her employer,
DataNet, for infringing on her outside
activities while she was on the job as
Marketing Specialist at the
company’s offices in northern
Virginia."
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