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Poetry: Scraps

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. every year she plowed neat furrows of stitches upon a quilt or two.   

Dora Dueck

May 8, 2025

Worship is as worship does

The sacred is no longer accorded time nor space; no need to reserve or provide room for the divine, the holy. Efficiency is the winner

Lonnie Buerge

April 10, 2025

In the church I attend

In the church I attend, one warm summer Sunday during worship, two large dogs ran in through the open door. Noses to the floor, they

Leonard Nolt

March 25, 2025

Your one dear life

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. Oh how you love your one dear life, this thrust of spade in

Dora Dueck

February 13, 2025

Their children

Rising from Ramah, loud lament, Rachel, inconsolable, crying for her children— their bodies beaten, brutalized, burned, scattered across landscape; their lives carried away, taken captive,

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

January 30, 2025

God is our refuge

After Psalm 46

Shari Wagner | First Mennonite Church of Indianapolis

January 9, 2025

The Brightest Things

I see our feet like the foothills of the Rockies underneath our featherbed. He’s sewing a leather children’s saddle for his thigh I’m writing this

Kelsi Folsom

December 12, 2024

To you will I cry, O Lord my rock

After Psalm 28:1 To You will I cry, O Lord My rock, my hidden reservoir, My aquifer in drought. You are the worry stone I

Shari Wagner | First Mennonite Church of Indianapolis

November 29, 2024

Toil and Grace

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. Grandma said a lazy Mennonite doesn’t understand his Bible. Praying can be done

Cheryl Denise

November 14, 2024

After 1 Thessalonians 1:3

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. In the quiet, we humbly remember the foundation our ancestors have laid, each

Shannon McKeehen

October 31, 2024

Why garden

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. To say grace over the swelling seed To tie a knot between the

Thomas Ruth

October 10, 2024

Blessed, First

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. Beyond the guarded gate of Eden, Between the greened rows in my garden,

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

September 12, 2024
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