Daughters of Promise March/April 2015 | Page 58

Guest columnist Tina Newson shares candidly about changing life seasons and confronting the fear that “the best days are over”. have a love/hate relationship with my home. Some days I wake up and feel the joy that comes from nesting; the satisfaction of creating order and beauty around me. I have a big home, five bedrooms and 3 baths; this may seem excessive for a family of four, now three since my daughter left for college. We purposefully bought a big home because I like to travel and my husband does not. Our compromise was to host travelers in our home. We are listed in the Mennonite Your Way directory. MYW believes in “an old tradition among Mennonites, Brethren, and other Ch