Darla Weaver - Gathering of Sisters
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Darla Weaver invites readers into her winsome and rural Old Order Mennonite life as she spends each Tuesday with extended family in Gathering of Sisters. As the year unspools, Weaver shares stories of seasonal activities, family anecdotes, and a few timely recipes. Rich in reminders to slow down and savor the blessings and moments of the ordinary, this book and its impact will linger long after the last page is turned.
Suzanne Woods Fisher, bestselling author of Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World
Darla Weaver opens up her heart and life in this wonderful book that throbs with joy, laughter, and love on every page. Story after story takes us inside her fascinating world on a backroad to heaven.
Donald B. Kraybill, author of Simply Amish
In Gathering of Sisters, Darla Weaver has turned the ordinary into something special. Her Tuesday get-togethers with her mother, sisters, nieces, and nephews are full of picnics, hearty meals, plants, and planning. Reading this delightful collection of Tuesday vignettes, we share in wedding stories and smores, stamp art, childrens auctioneering, cooking, new babies, and bike rides in all weather. This is a charming read!
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, professor of anthropology emerita at SUNY Potsdam, studying and writing about Old Order culture for thirty-five years
Gathering of Sisters is all about maintaining strong family bonds. In this fast-paced world were living in, the authors family takes time to meet with extended family on a weekly basis, thus passing on the importance of family gatherings to the next generation. The children of these sisters have a book full of precious memories: three generations sharing work, play, meals, smiles, and tears, undoubtedly strengthened by their common faith.
Linda Maendel, author of Hutterite Diaries: Wisdom from My Prairie Community
Darla Weavers book is so beautifully written, I felt like I was being welcomed into that warm and loving Old Order Mennonite family, and becoming part of the gathering of sisters.
Serena B. Miller of Sugarcreek, Ohio, is the multi-award- winning author of Loves Journey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weaver, Darla, author.
Title: Gathering of sisters : a year with my old order Mennonite family / Darla Weaver.
Description: Harrisonburg: Herald Press, 2018. | Series: Plainspoken: real-life stories of Amish and Mennonites
Identifiers: LCCN 2018016629 | ISBN 9781513803371 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Weaver, Darla. | Weaver, Darla--Family. | Old Order Mennonites--Biography. | Mennonite women--Religious life.
Classification: LCC BX8141 .W38 2018 | DDC 289.7092/52 [B] --dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016629
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture text is quoted from The Holy Bible, King James Version.
GATHERING OF SISTERS
2018 by Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22803. 800-245-7894.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018016629
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-5138-0337-1 (paperback); 978-1-5138-0339-5 (ebook)
Printed in United States of America
Cover and interior design by Merrill Miller
Cover photo by Bill Coleman
All rights reserved. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in whole or in part, in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the copyright owners.
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This book is a tribute of gratitude to my parents,
Richard and Marie Wenger,
better known as Dad and Mom to the nine of us.
You taught us to:
Love God
Serve him gladly
Cherish family
Count our blessings
Work hard
Smell the flowers
Appreciate lifes little things
and
Keep our promises
A MISH NOVELS , Amish tourist sites, and television shows offer second-or third-hand accounts of Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite life. Some of these messages are sensitive and accurate. Some are not. Many are flat-out wrong.
Now readers can listen directly to the voices of these Anabaptists themselves through Plainspoken. In the books in this series, readers get to hear Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite writers talk about the texture of their daily lives: how they spend their time, what they value, what makes them laugh, and how they summon strength from their Christian faith and community.
Plain Anabaptists are publishing their writing more than ever before. But this literature is read mostly by other Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites, and rarely by the larger public.
Through Plainspoken, readers outside their communities can learn what authentic Plain Anabaptist life looks and feels likefrom the inside out. The Amish and Mennonites and Hutterites have stories to tell. Through Plainspoken, readers get the chance to hear them.
O UR TUESDAYS happened more by accident than by conscious planning.
There were five of us sisters growing up together with our four little brothers in the white farmhouse our parents built. This house is situated on the rise of a small hill, beneath the sheltering canopy of eight towering silver maples. Five of these trees line up along the front of the house; three more circle to one side.
The nine of us kept this five-bedroom house brimming with life and crowded with both happiness and some inevitable sadness. We did a lot of living and a lot of learning in that house.
And then we all grew up.
I was the first to leave. On a warm and sunshiny day in September 2000, after the leaves on the lofty silver maples had faded from summer green and before they wore brightly flaming autumn shades, I was married to Laverne Weaver. It was the first wedding in that mellowing white house we all called home. Four more were to follow in the next years.
We never sat down and planned for Tuesdays. But after I moved six miles away to my own home, I gradually acquired the habit of going back to the old home place and spending a day each week with my family. On Monday I always had laundry to do, as well as scores of other jobs to tackle after the weekend. And before Laverne and I had children, I worked part time in a bakery at the end of the week.
That left Tuesdays. Tuesday really was the perfect in-between sort of day to spend with Mom and my sisters.
Regina was married the following year; Ida Mae and Emily were both married in the spring of 2005, Ida Mae in March and Emily in April. And Amanda, the youngest of us five girls, also had a spring wedding in 2009.
In retrospect, it seemed the white house beneath the maples had emptied fast, and even our little brothers were little no longer. One had also gotten married, one was living in Alaska, and one was planning a spring 2017 wedding. Except for Christopher, the youngest of the nine of us, Dad and Mom were alone again.
Except for Tuesdays. On Tuesdays the five of us sisters still come home. We pack up the childreneighteen of them during summer vacationand head to the farm. The large house snugged in by the maples is full again, and more than full.
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