PAGES Winter 2003 Editorial
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Editorial, Winter 2003 issue of PAGES:
"Looking Around Me"
What a Saturday! I had planned to write other "looking around me" thoughts — perhaps expressing the "amazing grace" of the arrival on January 12 of New Granddaughter Naomi.
I wanted to share fond details of the visit in Goshen with her family, holding and helping and playing with First Granddaughter, Greta, now two and a half and full of pretend.
Or I wanted to comment on "art" since Esther Augsburger has shared on page four just a bit of her speech given a few weeks ago when many in this area enjoyed again seeing and hearing of her own work and that of other local artists. I recall the impact of seeing the "swords into plowshares" sculpture Esther and her son created — both as it received final touches while stored at a friend's farm there in the Harrisonburg area and later poignantly placed in a strategic spot near the nation's Capitol in D.C.
Or perhaps I could have commented on war and peace — inescapable pros and cons promoted by so many during these past months. There is no question in my mind and heart that war is not the solution to anything ever. And certainly not war with Iraq where it will mean death to so many.
But suddenly there are no words at all to describe again the loss of astronauts, whose bright faces and profiles have filled the media and our minds in these past hours. And yet we pray and count again on God's grace as we move into the coming days. And we seek peace for "the city" — and for our world. God, help us follow Jesus' way of love and shalom.
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