Ivy Dishes
Mysterious Ways|February/March 2021
“My mom found a house for us to look at,” said my fiancé, Jon. “It’s in Richfield, not far from where I grew up.”
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Ivy Dishes

“Wow, that’s great!” I said. “Maybe this will be the one.”

Jon and I had been searching for our first home for months. Nothing we’d seen so far seemed right. The listings in Richfield had been especially off the mark. But if my soon-to-be mother-in-law, Ruthann, had come across a house for us to look at, I was going to check it out.

I hadn’t had much of a chance yet to get to know Ruthann. Her beloved grandmother, Nana, had recently died, and she’d been preoccupied with grief and helping the rest of Jon’s family clean out Nana’s house. Nana had been the heart and soul of the family, and Ruthann had been especially close to her. Not getting to meet Nana was one of my biggest regrets. I felt honored when Ruthann told me that Nana would’ve liked me. But it wasn’t the same as hearing it from Nana herself. Between not spending much time with Ruthann and not having met Nana, I felt as if I were struggling to find my footing with my future in-laws. I wanted to do whatever I could to draw us closer, including looking at this house that Ruthann had suggested.

The next day, as we drove over, Jon prepped me for the viewing.

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Ivy Dishes
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Ivy Dishes

“My mom found a house for us to look at,” said my fiancé, Jon. “It’s in Richfield, not far from where I grew up.”

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February/March 2021
The Duet
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The Duet

“Can you perform a hymn for us next week?” my pastor asked me after Sunday service.

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The Girl in the Dream
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The Girl in the Dream

Was this a church? The high, vaulted ceilings made it seem like one—almost but not exactly.

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News From Around Our Wonderful World
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News From Around Our Wonderful World

Liverpool, England Joanne Carr is hailing her son, Dougie McInerney, as her guardian angel.

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A Light in the Blizzard
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A Light in the Blizzard

I stepped on the gas and shifted into drive, then reverse, then back into drive again.

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Straight From the Fish's Mouth
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Straight From the Fish's Mouth

Florence, Italy. I’d been there before on one of those scruffy five-dollar-a-day youth-hostel jaunts through Europe, but now, just graduated from college, I was wondering what to do with my life.

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Divine Callings
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Divine Callings

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Dad's Voice
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Dad's Voice

As I reached to turn off the lamp on my bedside table, my eyes fell on the card my brother Isaac had given each of us siblings on what would have been Dad’s sixty-eighth birthday.

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Ben's Answer
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Ben's Answer

It was midafternoon, and I was already curled up on the couch in the living room with no plans to move.

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February/March 2021
A Doll's Hat
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A Doll's Hat

My fears around the surgery built all day.... God, please let me be as strong as my young patients are.

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