South Dakota shepherd with a love for writing, theology, and photography
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I Like Small
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Packing
Lately, I have this anxious feeling. It’s like I’m about to miss a flight—spending too much time packing, rushing around making sure I pack all the right things for my trip to the future. Meanwhile, I never actually board the plane because I can’t pack perfectly. This reminds me of a trip my friends and…
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Sheep are Generous Creatures
Some people don’t like to work with sheep. I don’t blame them. They can be infuriating little creatures, especially if you’re trying to herd them. They’re always getting themselves in some kind of trouble it seems (There’s a reason why us humans are compared to sheep so much in the Bible). On the ranch we…
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My God
I sneak in through the temple sheepishly, Bringing my sacrifice, oils, and rehearsed prayer, I find the inner sanctum and lay prostrate before the altar, Begging for forgiveness. But my God takes my hand, Gently pulling me to himself. I sit on his lap, I fall asleep listening to his heartbeat. — Sentel Schreier
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Ambition Anonymous: an addict’s fortunate fall from academia
Seasons don’t change immediately. They slip and slide into each other: Not quite sure whether to go forward, winter melts into fall again. Yearning for the past, spring won’t let the grass grow. In South Dakota, May has had us shoveling snow when we’re expecting bouquets of flowers. In nature, change isn’t usually abrupt, but…
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Rugged Individualism Isn’t That Great
Before I met my husband, I was beginning to like the idea of me being single with no friends, living a Thoreauvian kind of life by myself in a sheep wagon: writing poems about dirt, doing stand up comedy for my border collie, not worrying about the negative side effects that inevitably come from being…
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Don Quijote en la Teología de Dietrich Bonhoeffer
5/23/2019 En la Alemania nazi de 1940, Dietrich Bonhoeffer se involucró con el movimiento de resistencia para asesinar a Hitler. Fue en este tiempo cuando Bonhoeffer empezó a escribir una de sus muy bien sabidas colección de escritos, Ethics. Viendo la pasividad de las iglesias cristianas alemanas y la aprobación por parte de las autoridades…
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Breaking the Grass Ceiling: A Study of Women in Agriculture
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The Snake
What if I’m the snake in the garden? The devil between my own two elbows? Slithering around my psyche, I tempt myself into self-fulfillment. I eat the apple. I kick myself out of Eden everyday. I typically think I’m too good for it — Too good for peace and quiet. Outside the garden, I clothe…
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Vampire
I remember, about a year after I had converted to Christianity, giving a talk at my college’s Christian worship night. I was so nervous. I took Xanax in the bathroom then went on the stage to tell all the college kids about how I met God – something I didn’t quite understand myself, but had…
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