Old Order Mennonite Memoirs

Published by Our Daily Bread Ministries are little booklets called Discovery Series, written by different authors. Usually I sort-of-like “plow” through them and forget what I read, but last week when I was snapping green beans, the newest booklet lay with the day’s mail, beside me. Straying from the boring job of searching for bean ends to cut off, my eyes began to read: “GET OUTSIDE, Knowing God Through His Creation,” by Thomas Springer. His words begged to be read until I came to the end. Although his four short chapters called Delight, Fear, Wonder and Care were captivating, it is a paragr...