We're keeping it brief this month. Before sending this letter, I looked over your names and thought about your current seasons of life. Some of you are planning for or adjusting to marriages and babies and new degree programs and other huge changes. Some of you are doing the same deal you've been doing for a while. Some [...]
Luke 18:35-41As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted [...]
After a few days of concentrated time at home–After I confessed my own flippancy from the prior weeks–After I began to accept that my paid work would be completed (or not) around Amelia's day–After I realized that grocery runs needed to be strategic– I noticed the conflict. – It feels strange to taste and see the apparent goodness of [...]
One mid-afternoon a few weeks ago, the warmer temperature beckoned me outside. Amelia was about due for a nap, so I secured her snug against my chest, walked down our lane and back, and headed toward the wooden swing in our woods that overlooks the ravine. After rocking for a while, we emerged from the woods into [...]
My thoughts on these last few weeks have most certainly followed a non-linear progression - an exasperated 'not again,' a quest for facts, misunderstanding and being misunderstood, anger surrounding division, submission to grief, hopes for reconciliation, questions about my role in this. I am a police officer's wife. But more than that, I am a Christian, [...]
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Matthew 5: 3-4 It's been a while. The first few months of the year have required me to sink in deep each day. Peeling back layers of conversation, stints away from home, the [...]
I'm not quite sure how to begin this post. The last few weeks have been exciting, busy, love-filled weeks. I married an awesome man 16 days ago, and since then, it's been a process of allowing my mind to catch up with the monumental action I performed when I signed a few papers on that [...]
Mallory R. Manning 