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Amazing. Review to come.

“I always meet each person with the thought, “Here is another being made by God, who needs love and forgiveness like I do.” Ilse von Koeller, nurse and Bruderhof member 1911-1995

“Dad used to say, ‘You can’t get rich farming. If you are, you’re either exploiting the land, or the animals, or people, or all three.’” BOO Monsanto!!

Wait, Federal guidelines now outlaw seesaws on public playgrounds?!? Might as well outlaw monkey bars and slides too! Heck, add running around as a law breaking offense while your add it! Nope, can’t be a kid, against the law!

Those poor kids! The people of the Bruderhof not only live in their own communities, they also go to areas where they are needed, such as the Middle East to work with refuge children.

“If you love someone, you allow them to blossom. You unleash a positive force in that person, something that affirms life and then spreads and gives life to others. I think-this is true of me, and probably of most adults-that we are much too sparing with our love.”

“In 1950, when I was nineteen, a young man on the community fell in love with me. He was a German, but he didn’t worry or care that I was Jewish. He just loved me and I fell in love with him. We got married in 1952 and, guess what, we had thirteen kids. And I said, “I have Hitler a kick in the pants!” Lotte Keiderling, survivor of WWII and the Holocaust. Good for her!

“...there was never a victory that wasn’t preceded by a fight...’Freedom has a taste the protected shall never know.’”

GORGEOUS picture! Amazing colors and KITTY!!

This community has been growing and thriving for 100 years. It’s not like a commune that lasts maybe a decade or two. There has to be something there for people to join and stay. Many leave, it’s not a prison, but many come back too. It’s sounds peaceful.

Ok, this sounds like what I have been looking for. Once Corona is over, I’m visiting the nearest Bruderhorf and possibly changing my entire life. This is powerful.