April 2011

Dreab Days

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne BradstreetThe Amish summed up in one word the description for grey, drizzly, dreary days. Their word is “dreab.” Doesn’t that just about say it right?I don’t do well with too many dreab […]

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Amish “Theology”

Shirley wrote:…if you have not done so already, I’d love to hear about the theology of salvation preached from the pulpit. Much of what I heard from the Amish “pulpit” or rather from the doorways in homes where church gatherings took place, was not not so much “theological” in nature as it was admonishments for how one should live or not

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Amish Communion Service

The seasons have a way of triggering memories of my long-ago life among the Amish. In the spring and fall, I often remember what it was like to attend Communion Services in my original community. I was just recalling some of the details of these to David today. At the risk of treading on Amish “sacred ground,” I am going to,

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Spring has Sprung!

It’s spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  ~ Mark TwainAll the snow has melted, even the big white elephant in our yard, where the town

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