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“Their youngest has left the church…”
A few days ago, I posted a snippet from Todd Davis’s “Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church,” which was featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Jeff Hess picked up another part of the poem:
Pray for the Hartzler family. Their youngest has left the church and no longer believes that Christ died for her sins. She buys clothes at the mall. Tongue pierced, nose as well. Her shirt shows her belly where a ring of gold sprouts. We pray she will remember that her Lord’s side was pierced, that His crown held no gold, only the dried blood of His brow
Shamash Says this verse paragraph may well have been written about her, except that she buys her clothes at a thrift store. Visit her blog for a sweet meditation on what her Mennonite background means to this brave global seeker after truth.
I think she speaks for many of us who have roots deep in conservative religion but who have moved on to a different place in our own lives.
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