Mennonite World Review

Articles : Due Consideration

March 12, 2012 issue

• 

  Goering

  What is a parent’s legacy?

  How precious is your steadfast love, O God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. — from Psalm 36, one of my mother’s favorite passages

  My father gave a small laugh as we pulled the turquoise hobnail glass pieces from the back of a cabinet. He said my mother had disliked them and refused to display them. I had never seen them before. But here they were.

Jan. 23, 2012 issue

• Noticing change for better

  If I made a list of what was better about life 30 to 40 years ago, a few things would come to mind, not necessarily in order of importance.

Jan. 2, 2012 issue

• Surviving adversity

  If the soul could have known God without the world, the world would never have been created. — Meister Eckhart

Oct. 31, 2011 issue

• Weaving common threads

  I purchased a small hanging of red chile peppers and wine-colored ornamental corn to hang on my door at home in Albuquerque. It was handcrafted by a woman of Russian descent named Sopyn who sells such things from garden produce she grows herself outside of Rinconada in Taos County. I can remember stopping at her stand for the first time 28 years ago when my husband and I were on our honeymoon in northern New Mexico.

Oct. 3, 2011 issue

• While waiting for the rain

  Hope is one thing, gratitude another, and sufficient unto itself. — Mary Oliver

Aug. 15, 2011 issue

• Nothing defensive about it

  I like to look at newspaper photographs of couples celebrating wedding anniversaries — how they look now, alongside the original wedding portrait — and see how much they have changed (or not!) over time.

July 4, 2011 issue

• Water of life in a dry land

  The air in Albuquerque is so dry these days it practically crackles. Our high desert climate usually gives us about 9 inches of rainfall in a year, but this year has seen the driest start on record. The first five months of the year brought a scant .19 inches of moisture.

May 2, 2011 issue

• Harmony in the melting pot

  When the world’s attention focused on Japan after the earthquake and tsunami, the tumult of devastation contrasted with the people’s calm demeanor.

March 28, 2011 issue

• Human story, told differently

  From the very beginning, from the first moments I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike … — Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

Feb. 28, 2011 issue

• Are we really exceptional?

  One word you will probably not hear in describing the Mennonite church is cropping up frequently in American culture. The word is “exceptional.”

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