Remember the old woman who lived in a shoe? I'm a lot like her, with a husband and varying numbers of children in our 100-year-old farmhouse. This blog is about our lives.
Some people paint the Amish as having everything together. We don't. We understand but a small part of life, and so we understand that part very well. We have found one way to worship and serve God.
There's something about that wistful, idyllic depiction of life that is quite deceptive. It implies that no outsider can find that peace, and that all insiders have found that peace. Neither is true, because what is freeing for some is stifling for others. True peace comes from finding our place in God's plan. Sadly, we have put up barriers that sometimes makes that very difficult.
Some people paint the Amish as having everything together. We don't. We understand but a small part of life, and so we understand that part very well. We have found one way to worship and serve God.
ReplyDeleteThere's something about that wistful, idyllic depiction of life that is quite deceptive. It implies that no outsider can find that peace, and that all insiders have found that peace. Neither is true, because what is freeing for some is stifling for others. True peace comes from finding our place in God's plan. Sadly, we have put up barriers that sometimes makes that very difficult.
That's my perspective, at least.
I really enjoyed your article, by the way.
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I can't get that link (for your newspaper article) to work.. is it just me?? Or rather my computer??....
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