On Epiphany Sunday, Pastor Georgia offered us each a guiding word for the coming year, printed on cut-out stars. My
Kirsten Eve Beachy
Kirsten Eve Beachy lives and writes in Briery Branch, Va., and taught at Eastern Mennonite University for two decades. She attends Shalom Mennonite Congregation in Harrisonburg, Va.
Sometimes during the harried first years of raising toddler, then preschooler twins, one with Down syndrome, I escaped through our woods to the creek, Briery Branch, and stacked rocks.
