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Words to Live By

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Words to Live By · 1M ago

From A Quilt For Jenna – God’s Goodness

Reuben worked dawn to dusk in the fields beside the other men and they moved from field to field, harvesting corn, wheat, potatoes, and barley in such abundance that more buildings were quickly constructed to contain it all.  Often the men would stop at the end of a day and stand with their hats in
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Words to Live By · 1M ago

From “A Quilt For Jenna” – Summer Dreams

Jerusha tried to pull away.  She looked at Reuben.  His face was red and he was breathing hard, and his hands held hers with a steel grip.  There was something in him that suddenly frightened her, a place that she was just now seeing for the first time.  It was not a bad place but [...]
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Words to Live By · 2M ago

From “A Quilt For Jenna” – “Under the Shadow of His Wings”

Quickly Jerusha opened the little girl’s coat and took off her damp dress and undergarments.  The fire was beginning to give a little heat into the room and she put one of the bigger pieces of wood on the fire.  She could see the sides of the stove begin to turn red [...]
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Words to Live By · 2M ago

From Book Two of Apple Creek Dreams: The Road Home

There is something about an agricultural town in Ohio that is unique and wonderful, for with the deep link to the land comes a settledness and a sense of permanence found nowhere else. All the bright days of youth in such a place are held in the mystery of God’s eternal circle of life and [...]
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Words to Live By · 3M ago

From “A Quilt For Jenna”

Time ran like a river through her days, deep and smooth with no rapids to jostle and no danger to steer clear of.  It was as though she could see all the way back to that time when her family began and then look forward into the future to see her children and her children’s [...]
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Words to Live By · 3M ago

From “A Quilt For Jenna” – Apple Creek

  Like most farm children, Jerusha liked being alone.  In those days, before World War II, the fields around Apple Creek were open to the horizon and there were many stands of trees with small creeks and ponds.  Jerusha found great comfort in the simplicity of her life as she wandered through the fi
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Words to Live By · 4M ago

From “A Quilt For Jenna”

As at no other time, the reality and necessity of their decision to remain separate from the world came upon the Amish men. Life was work, and work was with their hands and their animals and the simple machines that required their constant guidance. They became one with the land, moving upon it in u
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Words to Live By · 5M ago

The Tebow Controversy

Here’s a late flash: It appears “Tebowing” is here to stay.  The Global Language Monitor website says it acknowledges that the word Tebowing — the act of taking a knee in prayer during an athletic contest — is now part of the English language.  In today’s online world, that’s practically the equival
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Words to Live By · 9M ago

A Quilt For Jenna – Chapter 29: To Every Season

Here’s another chapter from my latest novel, “A Quilt For Jenna.”  Summer in Apple Creek is a lovely time of the year.  Long, languid days, where the temperature stays mostly in the 80′s and 90′s, are followed by clear, warm evenings.  The night sky is brilliant with stars and the fields and orchard
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Words to Live By · 9M ago

A Quilt For Jenna: Chapter 2

Here’s Chapter Two of my latest novel,  “A Quilt for Jenna”. Bobby      Bobby Halverson stood in the rolled-up doorway of the diesel repair shop, smoking a Camel and watching the gray storm clouds blowing in from the south.  There was a biting chill in the wind and the snow had moved from the flurry
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