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Prose for the Porch
There is a white house with black windows and a wrap-around porch my family has called its home now for over thirty years. The painted...
Annie Gentzler
Sep 25, 2019
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
A Hidden Place
There is an extensive network of bike paths stretching across my county, built mostly on top of old railroad lines and named the Prairie...
Annie Gentzler
Aug 15, 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
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
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
The In-Between
It’s the end of August and I hear a Cicada singing away outside. Lately it keeps suddenly switching from sunshine to storms and back...
Annie Gentzler
Sep 14, 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
An Unexpected Intervention
This morning is one of singing and thankfulness. You see, for the majority of yesterday I found myself tossed back and forth by waves of...
Annie Gentzler
Mar 20, 2016
Leap Years
I was born on February 28th, and although being born on the last day of a month is not unusual, if that month happens to be February, you...
Annie Gentzler
Feb 29, 2016
Coincidence (Oil Changes: Part Two)
This morning I find myself flabbergasted that I continually underestimate that God interacts with us in extremely personal ways. In an...
Annie Gentzler
Oct 4, 2015
Oil Changes
Today was one of those mornings that I now realize, is such a luxury in my life. You know, the kind where you do not have to set the...
Annie Gentzler
Oct 3, 2015
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