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The People We Have Become

10/25/2016

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​​​We’ve been getting together at Waycross Camp in southern Indiana for four years now. We are only a few (7 this year), but then the Tudor Hall class of ’69 was only 32 and that counts Inez, the foreign exchange student. We weren’t particularly friends in high school. Some of us rarely spoke. We were threatened by the academic achievements or coolness factor of others, but the passage of forty-plus years has mellowed all that. We are who we are, and that's OK. 

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What would I do in Their Shoes?

8/28/2015

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[Whew! I haven't been blogging regularly and just found this in my draft box. I think the question is worth asking even now, so I will go ahead and post it.]

I recently opened my e-mail to find a newsletter from an old friend from our Mozambique days whose husband had recently returned from consulting for a Bible translation team in Nigeria. You’ve heard the news stories about Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic group that kidnaps schoolgirls to serve as slaves and slaughters Christian villagers. Boko Haram is active in the northern part of Nigeria and pushing aggressively south in hopes of turning Nigeria into a fundamentalist Islamic state. (Not all Muslims agree with them by any means, and those who disagree are likely to be slaughtered as quickly as Christians.) 

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Francis Schaeffer revisted

8/28/2015

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Francis Schaeffer and the shaping of Evangelical America by Barry Hankins is not a new book. It was published by Eerdmans in 2008, but I’m just now getting to it. It was a hard book to read. Schaeffer profoundly shaped my thinking as a young adult. The love with which the Schaefers received both European and American young people at L’Abri (“the Shelter”) in Huemoz, Switzerland, was as powerful an apologetic for his conservative Christian faith as his tireless teaching. Although I visited L’Abri only briefly in 1976 (and that at a time when the by-then-retired Schaeffers were away), I heard him speak several times, most notably at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Hankins’ summary of the contents of Schaeffer’s trilogy (The God Who is There, Escape From Reason, and He is There and He is not Silent) brought me back to the roots of much of my thinking that I have taken for granted for many years—the importance of worldview; the upper and lower stories that divorce faith and reason; the mannishness of man, separating us from the animal kingdom; the need to engage culture if we are going to win a world for Christ. 


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A King Worth Serving

4/20/2015

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Ruins of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall.
I fell in love with King Arthur and the Matter of Britain (the whole cycle of stories that come out of that legend) in high school when we read Idylls of the King. The language of Tennyson, the mystery of a baby hidden away to be later revealed as the rightful ruler, the promise of his return in the hour of Britain’s greatest need all tugged at my imagination and made me desire more than anything that it be true.

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Don't Become a Floating Convention Center

9/5/2014

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We recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of my home church, Faith Missionary Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was a charter member at age thirteen, and FMC has been our largest supporting church over the years so there were lots of old friends to see. Saturday night was a picnic. Most fun for me were <!--more-->conversations with one of my former Pioneer Girls, now an oncology nurse, and with a thirteen-year-old budding writer who grew up in West Africa. 

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Baby sitting--a Grandparent's joy

1/22/2014

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We were in Florida last week for the purpose of babysitting while our daughter ran the Disney Marathon. Actually, she did more than that. Way more! Here are a few pictures.
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We were in Florida last week for the purpose of babysitting while our daughter ran the Disney Marathon. Actually, she did more than that. Way more! Here are a few pictures.

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But That's Unconstitutional!

6/28/2013

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PictureThe police take away our neighbor for questioning
after searching his home. (February 1977)
The summer of 1976 my husband and I arrived in Ethiopia to teach at the Good Shepherd School for missionary children. Not only was that year the two hundredth anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence; it was also a time of major political upheaval in Ethiopia.  Emperor Haile Selassie had been deposed in 1974. The new government was a militaristic version of Marxism ruled by “the Derg,” or committee. Three coups occurred the year we were there. The last brought Lt. Col. Mongistu Haile Mariam to sole power. His government patterned itself after early Chinese Communism. 



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Bring Him Home!

5/23/2013

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“Bring him home!” Jean Valjean prays in Les Miserables of the young man his foster daughter loves. My daughter loves a young man too, and God has just brought him home from nine months in Afghanistan. We are grateful and rejoicing.
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My daughter made a special onesie to welcome Daddy home. The baby "helped" with his handprint--a challenge when you are eleven and a half months old

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Why Can't the World Be More Like Disney?

5/13/2013

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Our day in the Magic Kingdom starts.

There are no strangers in Disneyworld; only friends you haven’t met yet. On a recent visit, our six-year-old grand daughter Bella made friends on the bus, at the pool, in line, waiting for fireworks. But it wasn’t just Bella; there is an atmosphere of friendliness everywhere you turn. I commented to my husband that the little chocolate covered ice cream cubes would be an easy-to-share snack —like cheese curds.

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To the Girls

4/18/2013

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The crown is from our school crest, and
table decorations a throw back to our junior prom.
There is something about friends who have known you for a long time. They aren’t impressed. You can’t pretend. You can’t hide behind a practiced adult persona. They know. They have seen you in your social awkwardness. They witnessed your adolescent tactlessness and clumsy sins. You can't hide and there is something very freeing about that.

We are older now--women who have experienced enough of the ups and downs of life to mellow. 

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