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Who Needs to Hear Proverbs 31? | [View online]( [Give Now]( Advertisement [Christianity Today Connection]( [Home]( [Our Latest]( [Subscribe]( Wednesday, May 8, 2019 [Sabbath Rest: Not Just for Grownups]( [Sabbath Rest: Not Just for Grownups]( I want my children to know how to work hard. I also want them to know that hard work doesn’t define them. Nathan T. Stucky The stories we hear when we’re young stay with us. They define us, tell us who we are. For good, and sometimes for ill, they inform the ways we live our lives. Sometimes we realize it. Sometimes we don’t. When I was 16 years old, my youth group from First Mennonite Church of Pretty Prairie, Kansas, went on a service trip to Appalachia. (If the term “Mennonite” makes you think horses, buggies, and straw hats, then think again. Those are either Amish or a more conservative group ... 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