Growing Up Amish: A Memoir by Ira Wagler

Author:Ira Wagler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Amish, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Christian Life, Ex-Church Members, Christian Theology, RELIGION / Christian Life / General, Religion, Personal Memoirs, General, Adult, Ex-Church Members - Amish, Biography & Autobiography, Ira, Christianity, Religious, Wagler, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
ISBN: 9781414339368
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-06-01T17:57:11+00:00

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It was a strange thing, and I don’t quite understand it, even today, but when we were out there, living and working in normal society, thoughts of home, the good things— the security, the family, the comforts—somehow always crept in and drew us back. And so it was that year in Florida.

Sometime that fall, probably in September, we both knew that we would be back home in Bloomfield by winter. It didn’t seem like a bad thing. We’d been gone for the better part of a year, and we longed for our old haunts, our old friends.

By late October, both of us had returned. This time, we were determined to make it work. This time, we would do it. This time, we really meant it.

That vague and distant future, never more than two weeks out, was now upon us. The time had come for us to do what we had seen so many others around us do, including wild youth we had met and befriended in Pinecraft. (A good many of them are settled and married today, with families. Amish.) Now we, too, would walk that path. It was time.

In my head I figured I could make it work. I knew I could. Somehow. But in my heart, well, those were days when promptings from the heart were quashed. Ignored. Buried, somewhere, out there on the edges of my consciousness, where they belonged. So I trudged doggedly onward, determined to endure whatever it took to settle down and remain Amish.

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