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Crushed Rock Prayer Walks
Can you feel it? The weather is beginning to turn. The last summer sun is mixing with a different air now, slowly but surely pulling us...
Annie Gentzler
Sep 5, 2018
The Undoing
The act of journaling draws a line for my soul. The blank pages always present a sobering choice. With each word I confront the choice...
Annie Gentzler
Apr 6, 2018
Birthday Eves
I have joked over and over again that God clearly must have had some really good reason to not give me the voice of Adele or Celine Dion;...
Annie Gentzler
Feb 28, 2018
Strings and Strands
This past summer, I helped my younger sister transport her harp home after her performance in a town festival. Even writing that sentence...
Annie Gentzler
Jan 31, 2018
The Road to Radical
The title alone sounds far more brave than what I feel as I type those words. But somewhere along the way a seed got planted, the right...
Annie Gentzler
Feb 9, 2017
Scary Prayers... Part 1
Untethered. Unanchored. No landmarks on the horizon. I did not feel that way until two weeks ago. I thought I was preparing for the...
Annie Gentzler
Nov 30, 2016
Two Songs and Almost Ten Years
Voices. Hundreds of voices... Deciding to attend Wheaton College was a rocky road for me. Yes, in some ways, I can look back now and see...
Annie Gentzler
Oct 12, 2016
iPhones, Laundry, and New Perspectives
Two weeks ago I managed to wash my iPhone with a load of sheets. Without going into the unnecessary details, I ended up getting the...
Annie Gentzler
Sep 28, 2016
Two Weeks
As ridiculous as it may sound, I think there is something about July 4th that triggers the end of summer countdown. I came from the...
Annie Gentzler
Jul 15, 2016
Night Drives
The last couple days I have been a little restless partly due to an excess of unstructured solitary time. So last night around 9:30 pm,...
Annie Gentzler
Jun 28, 2016
Groceries and Glimpses
At the high school where I teach, the Seniors’ school year ends almost two full weeks before the rest of the students. One evening...
Annie Gentzler
Jun 16, 2016
Backroad Pruning
In a blur of last minute Memorial Day weekend plans, two of my four siblings ended up at the family cottage. So after watching my senior...
Annie Gentzler
Jun 3, 2016
To My Ducklings
I have avoiding writing this for far too long. It seems too hard. Too massive to tackle. What I want to say is so much more than I know...
Annie Gentzler
May 18, 2016
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