
What Drug Dealer Street Has Taught Me About the Mennonites
Every June, I decide that June is the most beautiful month of the year. Then, October comes. How can I help but change my mind?
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus…
(Hebrews 12:1-2)

Every June, I decide that June is the most beautiful month of the year. Then, October comes. How can I help but change my mind?

And sometimes, like me and the traffic, you might find yourself so focused on your mission and sense of what is beautiful that you forget to be frustrated.

In the email version of today’s blog post, I shared the results from the question “Where Do You Live?” from the “Books and Mennonites Survey.”

I listen to audiobooks all the time while folding laundry, driving, or doing dishes. The dishes get done so much faster this way, and the miles disappear more rapidly!

But I probably wouldn’t find such rich details out on a ranch in Nevada, or even in a green hayfield. I might even get homesick for Elkhart and its craziness.

“Even though we don’t have children,” I said, “there are a lot of opportunities to help make happy childhood memories.”