My Mennonite mother can out-thank the most grateful of grace-givers. It drove me crazy growing up, but I’m starting to realize she was onto something, Martin Bauman writes
First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atMy mother looks to my father for input. The smell of baked bread, steamed green beans and barbecued trout wafts from the dinner table. It’s framed as a question, but there is only one answer. It is the same answer it has always been.
I was raised a Mennonite, which is not to be confused with an Old Colony Mennonite, nor an Old Order Mennonite, and certainly not a David Martin Mennonite . I am neither a Mexican Mennonite , nor a Conservative Mennonite , but instead, a “mainstream” Mennonite – a sellout in the Mennonite tradition, if you will. Mainstream Mennonites are more or less akin to any other Canadian you might see – “except,” one such Mennonite blogger notes, “for the lingering vestiges of Mennonite self-loathing.
When I finished high school, I moved away from home and left my old church behind, only to return two or three times a year – often for Christmas and Easter, when the pews would fill with all the other non-believers. By then in my late teens, I had seen enough of organized religion and figured perhaps the answer lay in a more personal form of spirituality. I read Eckhart Tolle, Paulo Coelho, the Dalai Lama. And yet, whenever I returned home, there was prayer.
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